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Nothing has revealed its first over-the-ear headphones. The aluminum and transparent Headphone (1) was designed in collaboration with KEF. They offer adaptive noise canceling, bass enhancement for deeper low frequencies, and spatial audio, for $299 at launch. But spoilers: The buttons on these headphones might be the best part.
Commuters in and around San Francisco rode into work for free on Tuesday morning due to an outage in the Clipper card system, which is used to handle payments for train, bus and ferry rides. "ATTENTION: The Clipper system is experiencing an outage on all operators this morning," the Bay Area Clipper account wrote in a post on X. "Please be prepared to pay your fare with another form of payment if required by your transit agency." Many buses were waving commuters on without asking for payment,
An "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown, which is marketing its music with AI-generated pictures of members that don't appear to exist, is now claiming that "we never use AI." After being publicly accused of being the fabrication of AI, an "official" X account for the band is now seemingly attempting to control the narrative, or at least to gin up a few more streams. "Absolutely crazy that so-called 'journalists' keep pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is 'AI-gene
The new platformer launching July 17 is the first 3D Donkey Kong game in over 25 years. Nintendo has confirmed that the top-notch development team behind Super Mario Odyssey, one of the best games for the Switch, has also developed Donkey Kong Bananza for the Switch 2, according to reporting by Eurogamer. The highly anticipated platformer starring Nintendo's iconic ape will be the first 3D Donkey Kong game since 1999's Donkey Kong 64. We got a chance to go hands-on with Donkey Kong Bananza ear
Kayla Solino/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Baseus' Nomos 5-in-1 Charging 140W Charging Station The Nomos Charger cuts down on cords and clutter, and can easily replace a wireless charging pad, a USB-C multi-charger, and other cords like laptop and phone chargers. Its innovative features make it easy to track the output and charging of your devices, but if you're looking for something with a smaller profile, or just don't need extra ports, smaller wireless or multi-chargers may be your best bet
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Pixel phones have an excellent reputation for smart software, but battery life has been a common complaint with Google's smartphones. Thankfully, that same smart software is now improving battery life and longevity, though many features aren't set up for maximum endurance out of the box. I've found that a handful of features can dramatically improve how long your Pixel lasts, both in a single day and over the long haul. Also: Why I recommend this $280 Android phone over cheap m
Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal, Vitess, horizontal sharding, or Enterprise options? Benchmarking Postgres By Benjamin Dicken | July 1, 2025 Today we launched PlanetScale for Postgres. For the past several months, we've been laser focused on building the best Postgres experience on the planet, performance included. To ensure we met our high standard for database performance, we needed a way to measure and compare other options with a standardized, repeatable, and fair method
Set and forget thanks to the iRobot Home app which allows you to have your Roomba clean while you’re away from the house. The app can suggest cleaning schedules and provide a clean map report so you can see exactly how well it covered every exposed surface on the floor of your home. In need of a cleaning off-schedule? Just ask Alexa, Siri, or you Google Assistant to send the Roomba on its way. The specialized microfiber mop pad can take care of footprints, dirt, and dust like no other. Add a co
Players who bought the Nintendo Switch 2 with the laser focus of playing Nintendo’s exclusive titles may have been disappointed that the sole first-party experience available at launch was Mario Kart World. You won’t have to sit on your hands for much longer—Donkey Kong Bananza, set to release on July 17, might just be the best reason to own a Switch 2 this early in its life cycle. I played around 2.5 hours of the upcoming game starring Nintendo’s raging gorilla, and I couldn’t stop punching at
Ryan Haines / Android Authority OnePlus 13 OnePlus has seen better days in the US, but it’s still one of the best alternative brands in the market. Between the cutting-edge hardware and competitive pricing, these Android phones are great rivals to Samsung and Google’s devices. However, two US lawmakers have reportedly asked the Commerce Department to investigate whether OnePlus phones are sending data to China. This isn’t just potentially bad news for OnePlus; it could also have awful ramifica
Embabel Agent Framework Embabel (Em-BAY-bel) is a framework for authoring agentic flows on the JVM that seamlessly mix LLM-prompted interactions with code and domain models. Supports intelligent path finding towards goals. Written in Kotlin but offers a natural usage model from Java. From the creator of Spring. Key Concepts Models agentic flows in terms of: Actions : Steps an agent takes : Steps an agent takes Goals : What an agent is trying to achieve : What an agent is trying to achieve
You fall out of the sky and find yourself on a day-glo series of underground islands. You have to smash your way through them with your gorilla fists to find secret objects and fossils. Occasionally, you can turn into a magic ostrich. Also, a woman named Pauline rides your back and throws words at things. Donkey Kong Bananza, a game that's only available on the Nintendo Switch 2, is the best handheld gaming console's new must-get game. After a few hours of playing it at a Nintendo preview in Ne
pbf2sqlite A simple command line tool for reading OpenStreetMap .osm.pbf files into a SQLite database. Usage: pbf2sqlite DATABASE [OPTION ...] Options: read FILE Reads .osm or .osm.pbf FILE into the database rtree Add R*Tree indexes addr Add address tables graph Add graph table The command pbf2sqlite test.db read country.osm.pbf reads the OSM PBF file country.osm.pbf and creates in the database test.db the tables. OSM data can be obtained from a provider such as Geofabrik.
Several moments of my two-hour hands-on preview of Donkey Kong Bananza felt like I was playing the gritty 2009 action game Red Faction: Guerilla — except this time I was actually playing as a gorilla. For example, I had to level a multistory building during a timed minigame. Just like in Guerilla, I targeted the load-bearing columns with Donkey Kong’s ripped arms to quickly bring it down. Reveling in the destruction made me feel equal parts satisfied and sinister, all while Donkey Kong struck a
U.S. senators voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove a controversial 10-year ban on states’ abilities to regulate AI from the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” reports Axios. The provision to the reconciliation bill was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Many prominent Silicon Valley executives — including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, and a16z’s Marc Andreessen — were in favor of the so-called “AI moratorium,” which they said would prevent states from forming an
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 . Keeping your floors clean doesn’t have to mean dragging out a bulky vacuum or spending your weekends chasing dust bunnies. Thanks to automation, the best robot vacuums can handle the daily dirt and debris for you, quietly working in the background while you focus on more important thin
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The smart ring arena is evolving quickly, but Oura still sets the pace. Its current-generation ring is polished, feature-packed, and impressively reliable. Yet, no device line is immune to the itch for something more. With new rivals entering the scene and wearables advancing rapidly, now feels like the right time to think about what’s next. The Oura Ring 5 is likely a ways out, but I’m already daydreaming about what the next model might include. A refined de
TL;DR You can test the new Signal Backups feature on Android on our staging servers. Grab the self-updating apk here! Hello, everyone! Many of you are aware that we’ve been working on a new end-to-end encrypted backup system for quite a while. Well, today, we’re finally ready to start testing it with external users The new backup system fulfills so many of the things people have wanted for so long: Hosted by Signal, so your data is safe even if you made a local backup but dropped your phone
An electric air taxi by Joby Aviation sits at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City, Nov. 12, 2023. Joby Aviation stock soared about 12% as the flying air taxi maker got closer to launching a service in the United Arab Emirates. The electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, company said Monday that it delivered its first aircraft to the UAE and has completed piloted flight tests as it readies for a 2026 launch in the region. "Our flights and operational footprint in Dubai ar
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on the day of Circle Internet Group's IPO, in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group has applied for a national trust bank charter, moving forward on its mission to bring stablecoins into the traditional financial world after the firm's big market debut this month, CNBC confirmed. Shares rose 1% after hours. If the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency grants the bank charter, Circle will
An electric air taxi by Joby Aviation flies near the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 12, 2023. Joby Aviation stock soared about 12% as the flying air taxi maker got closer to launching a service in the United Arab Emirates. The electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, company said Monday that it delivered its first aircraft to the UAE and has completed piloted flight tests as it readies for a 2026 launch in the region. "Our flights and operation
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened. Originally published on 11 May 2023. 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. Datadog is a leading observability tooling provider which went publi
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers. The plan would benefit AT&T, which is based in Cruz's home state, along with Verizon and T-Mobile. Cruz's proposal revives a years-old controversy over whether the entire 6 GHz band should be devoted to Wi-Fi, which can use the large spectrum band for faster speeds than networks that rely solely on the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Congress
Making art used to be a uniquely human endeavor, but machines have learned to distill human creativity with generative AI. Whether that content counts as "art" depends on who you ask, but Spotify doesn't discriminate. A new band called The Velvet Sundown debuted on Spotify this month and has already amassed more than half a million listeners. But by all appearances, The Velvet Sundown is not a real band—it's AI. While many artists are vehemently opposed to using AI, some have leaned into the tr
An electric air taxi by Joby Aviation flies near the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 12, 2023. Joby Aviation stock soared about 14% as the flying air taxi maker got closer to launching a service in the United Arab Emirates. The electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, company said Monday that it delivered its first aircraft to the UAE and has completed piloted flight tests as it readies for a 2026 launch in the region. "Our flights and operation
At some point, we've all lost our phone, keys, or wallet, and even pets make a break for it sometimes. Bluetooth trackers are indispensable in these situations. These small devices attach to almost anything -- keychains, remotes, your pet's collar, or even your child's backpack, so you can track their location on your phone anytime. There are dozens of options available, but which device is right for you? We've tested out the best Bluetooth trackers to help you make the most informed purchase.
Tailor, a San Francisco- and Tokyo-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round. Investors include ANRI, JIC Venture Growth Investments (JIC VGI), New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Spiral Capital and Y Combinator. ERP systems typically come with a single interface that includes all the necessary functions, but this can be inflexible and restrict customization options. In contrast, a “headless” ERP system separates the front end (user inter
While real artists struggle to earn money on Spotify, a seemingly AI-generated "band" has garnered enough streams to actually make a buck. As Music Ally reports, the act in question, The Velvet Sundown, recently appeared out of the blue on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and even YouTube — despite having no digital footprint prior to this summer. Despite being so seemingly young, The Velvet Sundown — whose name is a clear ripoff of Lou Reed's legendary psych-rock band The Velvet Un
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This could allow bad actors to remotely access these devices. A security company has found eight security vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of Brother printer models. The company has released firmware updates to handle seven of these vulnerabilities, but one security flaw cannot be patched. Brother has indicated that it'll fix the remaining issue during the manufacturing process of future printers, which doesn't help current owners. The company recommends that users change the default main