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People Are Backflipping Off of Waymo’s Robotaxis

In a bizarre (or hilarious) late-night episode that underscored public unease with autonomous vehicles, several men climbed onto stalled Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco’s Marina District and began attacking them. They then started sitting and climbing on them and, at one point, began doing backflips off the driverless cars while a crowd cheered. City police eventually cleared the scene, but the incident highlights growing tensions over deployments of robotaxis in urban areas. So what happene

Darth Vader’s Lightsaber Sets New Sale Record at Sci-Fi Movie Auction

How much would you be willing to pay for Darth Vader’s lightsaber from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi? For at least one lucky fan, the answer was more than $3.65 million. The lightsaber sold for a cool $3,654,000 on Thursday—a record for a Star Wars item sold at auction. It sold as part of the first day lots of Propstore’s Los Angeles Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction and is the only hero lightsaber across the two films “with verifiable screen use ever” to ever come to public a

Tesla offers $1 trillion to Elon Musk to unleash his army of robots

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. Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if Tesla shareholders approve a new pay package that was just put forward by the company’s board. Musk would need to meet certain milestones in order to receive that eye-popping compensation, such as producing 1 million robotaxis and 1 million humanoid robots, as well a

64% of People Still Don't Want a Foldable Smartphone, CNET Survey Finds

Foldables have been a staple of the smartphone release cycle for years now, with products from companies such as Samsung, Motorola and Google. Despite the refreshingly unique form factor in a sea of mobile uniformity, the vast majority of consumers still aren't sold. According to a CNET survey, 64% of respondents say they aren't willing or interested in buying a foldable smartphone in the next year, while just 13% say they are. An additional 20% aren't sure if they want a foldable and only 3% s

PSA: Google’s new Pixel Flex Dual Port 67W charger isn’t the same everywhere

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s new Pixel Flex Dual Port 67W charger may be missing one feature depending on where you buy it. Users on Reddit point out that the charger’s prongs don’t fold as advertised on Google’s website and Amazon. The lack of foldable prongs may be limited to specific regions, though. Google’s new Pixel Flex Dual Port 67W charger is surely one of the best accessories you can buy for your Pixel 10 phone. The $59.99 USB-C fast charger uses proprietary tec

‘People Are So Proud of This’: How River and Lake Water Is Cooling Buildings

“In the old days, it was more like a luxury project,” says Deo de Klerk, team lead for heating and cooling solutions at the Dutch energy firm Eneco. Today, his company’s clients increasingly ask for district cooling as well as district heating systems. Eneco has 33 heating and cooling projects under construction. In Rotterdam, Netherlands, one of the company’s installations helps to cool buildings, including apartment blocks, police offices, a theater and restaurants, using water from the River

Lenovo Legion Go 2 hands-on: Powerful upgrades but with an even higher price

At the beginning of the year, Lenovo gave us an early design preview of its next flagship gaming handheld — the Legion Go 2. Today, at IFA 2025, the company is fleshing out the rest of the system with more details regarding its specs, price and availability. In terms of its overall appearance, not much has changed on the outside of the Legion Go 2. It has the same general shape and detachable controllers as the preview model, alongside an 8.8-inch OLED with a variable 144Hz refresh rate and VES

Lenovo's new Legion Go 2 could be the ergonomic handheld I've been waiting for

Lenovo Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lenovo announced its upcoming gaming lineup at IFA 2025. The Legion Go 2 handheld brings several updates, including a more ergonomic design and better hardware. We also got a first-hand look at Lenovo's tenth-generation Legion Pro 7 laptop and LOQ midrange gaming desktop. The IFA (Innovation For All) 2025 tech trade show is currently underway in Berlin (you can think of it as a European version of CES), and

The Pretty Screen on Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 Will Almost Make You Forget About Its Price

Why change what works? In the case of Lenovo’s Legion Go 2, the question morphs into “Why change what makes you distinct?” Lenovo’s upcoming sequel to its Legion Go handheld gaming PC is more powerful, has grips made for human hands, and sports a prettier screen. Its blood is flowing with the same DNA as Lenovo’s odd handheld, but now it comes with a price tag designed to make your wallet weep. Here’s the kicker. At IFA 2025, Lenovo declared the Legion Go 2 will start at $1,050 for a version we

Legion Go 2 official: Lenovo’s new flagship handheld costs $1,099 — and up

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Lenovo’s Legion Go was a polarizing handheld gaming PC, and that won’t change as the company officially announces its successor today: the new Legion Go 2 is slightly bigger, heavier, and costs at least $400 more than the original. But in many other wa

Huawei Releases Its Second Trifold Phone Weeks Ahead of Samsung's Expected Launch

Huawei's second-generation trifold phone, the Mate XTs, is now available, just shy of a year after the company's first trifold phone was released in September 2024. The trifold phone isn't much different from the Mate XT, but two big upgrades take the spotlight. The Mate XTs let you use a stylus on the phone's folding screen and comes in purple, red, black or white. It runs on HarmonyOS 5.1, which Huawei calls a "PC-level" experience, and has a new M-Pen 3 stylus. "In the free multiwindow mode

Playing Silksong on the ROG Xbox Ally X: I'm Ready for More

The biggest game of the next week, or weeks, is a long-awaited indie sequel you may have heard of: Hollow Knight Silksong. The game, after being expected for years, just suddenly dropped like a magic back-to-school gift. While it's available for a number of platforms including Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation and PC, I got a chance to play a Silksong for about an hour on the upcoming Asus ROG Xbox Ally X handheld, a Windows-based game handheld that promises better support of Microsoft's game

The most impressive piece of tech hardware I've tested in 2025

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Fold 7 has reached the point that it's now the same size as flagship phones when closed. The software upgrades in One UI 8 and Android 16 finally take advantage of the productivity potential of foldables. There are multiples modes in the Fold 7 that make it even better than just a phone that transforms into a tablet. It didn't take long for Samsung's Z Fold 7 to change my mind about fold

Your old Google phone may be getting this Pixel 9 livestreaming feature

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel’s Connected Cameras feature is appearing on older models, such as the Pixel 6a, 7, and 8 Pro. Google’s support page still lists the Pixel 9 series as the only officially supported hosts. The tool lets you use another Pixel or GoPro as a remote camera for livestreams in apps like YouTube and TikTok. Google’s Connected Cameras feature is handy for turning another Pixel phone or GoPro into a remote camera for livestreams. It was initially billed as

What’s the Story Behind ‘Tron: Ares?’ Our Report From the Set

“I have to ride a lightcycle.” That was my first thought last year when the invite arrived to visit the set of Disney’s new sequel, Tron: Ares. It seemed like a logical request. When you think of Tron, you think of lightcycles. They’re a huge part of both 2010’s Tron: Legacy and 1982’s Tron. And yet, I had to wonder, were there even lightcycles in this movie? What exactly WAS this movie? Coming out 15 years after the last one, with basically a whole new cast, it seemed any concept of what the fi

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‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ Promises Vampire Intrigue Galore in New Trailer

While Interview With the Vampire fans will have to wait until 2026 to pick back up with that series—retitled The Vampire Lestat for its rock n’ roll-infused third season—Anne Rice’s world expands in just a few weeks with Talamasca: The Secret Order. AMC has just shared a full trailer after that teaser in July, and it teases supernatural secrets, psychic menace, and danger-filled dark rooms. Talamasca runs just six episodes, but AMC is calling it a “first season,” so make of that what you will.

Samsung's Fold 7 finally made me a believer in foldable phones - 3 reasons why

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Fold 7 has reached the point that it's now the same size as flagship phones when closed. The software upgrades in One UI 8 and Android 16 finally take advantage of the productivity potential of foldables. There are multiples modes in the Fold 7 that make it even better than just a phone that transforms into a tablet. It didn't take long for Samsung's Z Fold 7 to change my mind about fold

Hledger 1.50

Transaction balancing is now done in a more robust way, using local precisions only (like Ledger) #2402. Until now, a transaction was required to balance using its commodities's global display precisions. Small imbalances were tolerated by configuring display precisions for the whole journal (with commodity directives). Now, a transaction is required to balance using the precisions in its journal entry only. This means each entry can use the precision it needs, and balancing precision and di

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Solutions Engineer (Remote US and Canada)

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space, so we are now looking for our first dedicated Solutions Engineer to bridge the gap between our innovative technology and the developers who need it most. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced developer who wants to help peers make dramatic gains in their day-to-day jobs, and ultimately for their organizations. An ideal candidate would be someone who is already a Depot user and fan who wants to find a new role in a fast

A Shocking Number of Kids Don’t Play Outside

For plenty of us grown-ups, the time spent running around our neighborhoods or hanging by the playground swings was a highlight of our childhood. Kids today often can’t say the same, though. New research shows that a substantial proportion of children aren’t playing outdoors at all, even on the weekends. Scientists at the University of Exeter in the UK found that about a third of children reported not playing outdoors after school, while one in five reported not playing outside during the weeke

A Case Study in AI Overstatement: Builder.ai

Back in May, Builder.ai, once a high-flying startup touted as a path-clearing AI-powered app builder, filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., culminating a spectacular fall that has become a cautionary tale in today’s AI frenzy. The filing followed a flurry of activity that saw creditors seize its accounts, the revelation that it may have been using engineers in India instead of AI, and a probe into how Builder.ai’s founder spent money leading up to its collapse. The collapse has sparked anger among

Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

A PlayStation game is now the best-selling game on Xbox

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. If you ever doubted the “console wars” were over, here’s a new piece of data to consider: Helldivers 2, formerly console exclusive to Sony’s PS5, is currently the best-selling title on Xbox. In fact, it’s the first and third best-selling game, if you count its more premium edition, and it’s currently the ninth-most played game on the platfo

The first iPhone with all-screen display could arrive next year: report

The dream of an edge-to-edge iPhone display with no cutout could come true sooner than we thought. Per a new analyst report, next year’s iPhone Fold might be the first iPhone to move camera components under the display, thus offering a truly all-screen design. iPhone Fold expected to feature under-display front camera When Apple launched the iPhone X in 2017, it touted a “gorgeous all-glass design.” But as we all know, that design included a notch, which in 2022 shrank into the Dynamic Island.

US sues robot toy maker for exposing children's data to Chinese devs

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued toy maker Apitor Technology for allegedly allowing a Chinese third party to collect children's geolocation data without their knowledge and parental consent. A complaint filed by the Justice Department, following a notification from the Federal Trade Commission, alleges that Apitor violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) by failing to notify parents or obtain their consent before collecting their children's location information. Ap

Disney Settles FTC Complaint With YouTube Over Children's Data Collection

Disney will pay a $10 million penalty for mislabeling videos on YouTube and allowing personal data to be collected from children without notifying parents or getting their consent, the FTC said in an announcement. The complaint filed in a US District Court, the FCC said, alleged that Disney uploaded videos to YouTube in channels that defaulted to "Not Made For Kids" when the videos should have been labeled "Made For Kids." Due to the mislabeling, videos intended for children collected more inf

Launch HN: Risely (YC S25) – AI Agents for Universities

Hi HN, I’m Danial, co-founder and CTO of Risely AI ( https://risely.ai ). We're building AI agents that automate operational workflows inside universities. Here’s a demo: https://www.loom.com/share/d7a14400434144c490249d665a0d0499?... Higher ed is full of inefficiencies. Every department runs on outdated systems that don’t talk to each other. Today, advising staff are looking up enrollment data in PeopleSoft or Ellucian, checking grades and assignments in Canvas, and trying to track engagement

Disney to pay $10M to settle claims it collected kids’ data on YouTube

Disney will pay $10 million to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it mislabeled videos for children on YouTube, which allowed the collection of kids' personal information without their consent or notification to their parents. This occurred after the entertainment giant failed to tag kid-directed videos on YouTube as "Made for Kids" (MFK), a label that instructs the video streaming platform to block personal data collection and stop serving personalized ads on correctly des

Voyager is an interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks

Under-16s in England will be banned from buying energy drinks such as Red Bull and Monster because they fuel obesity, cause sleep problems and leave them unable to concentrate. Health experts, teaching unions and dentists welcomed the ban and said it would boost children and young people’s health. It fulfils a pledge Labour included in its manifesto for last year’s general election. “How can we expect children to do well at school if they have the equivalent of a double espresso in their syste