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‘The Muppet Show’ Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Disney+ Special

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-24 15:25:08

After a pair of pilots made in 1974 and 1975, The Muppet Show officially hit the airwaves in 1976—which means 2026 marks an important milestone for Kermit the Frog and his pals. To celebrate the big 50th anniversary, Disney+ will air a one-off special in the much-loved variety show format, with pop star Sabrina Carpenter as a featured guest. In addition, the Hollywood Reporter writes that there’s the potential for the special to turn into a “backdoor pilot” for a future Muppet Show revival. Th

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The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-09-24 13:10:24

“What this whole debate comes down to is who controls the skies,” Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told the audience at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday. “Do we believe in God and that he has dominion over his perfect creation of planet Earth? Do we believe that he has given us everything we need to survive as a civilization since the beginning of time? Or do you believe in man’s claim of authority over the weather, based on scientists that have only been

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Here’s Apple’s official method to charge your Apple Watch faster

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-24 19:39:22

With iOS 18, Apple introduced a “Slow Charger” warning for iPhone users looking to diagnose or improve the charging speed of their iPhones. Now, the same warning is coming to watchOS 26. Here’s how to find it. As spotted by MacRumors, Apple published a new support page this week with new details about Apple Watch charge speeds. As the document explains it: “With watchOS 26, if your Apple Watch detects that your charging experience could be improved, you’ll see a Slow Charger message in Settin

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Tesla exec says the company will redesign door handles that reportedly pose safety risks

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 19:55:00

Yesterday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into Tesla following a report by Bloomberg that its electric door handles could stop working when a vehicle's low-voltage battery fails. That created a safety hazard that the publication found could trap passengers when a Tesla car was in an emergency situation, such as a crash. Now, Bloomberg is back with the news that Tesla plans to redesign those problematic handles. Tesla design head Franz von Holzhause

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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 18:33:37

1. Bertrand Meyer Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan 2. Dorothea Puente The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security 3. John Christie Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse 4

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Two ‘Flying Cars’ Collide During Air Show Rehearsal in China

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-24 23:16:10

Two “flying cars” collided on Tuesday during an air show rehearsal in China, injuring one of the pilots, according to a report from CNN. The incident happened at the Changchun Air Show in Jilin, China, where two XPeng AeroHT aircraft collided midair, forcing one of them to the ground. The other vehicle was able to land safely, according to Electrek, and the cause of the crash is under investigation. The company told CNN that the crash was the result of “insufficient spacing” and one of the fly

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator

wired.com Natasha Bernal 2025-09-24 15:53:12

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in London, standing in front of a room full of journalists, outing himself as a huge fan of Gemini’s Nano Banana. “How could anyone not love Nano Banana? I mean Nano Banana, how good is that? Tell me it’s not true!” He addresses the room. No one responds. “Tell me it’s not true! It’s so good. I was just talking to Demis [Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind] yesterday and I said ‘How about that Nano Banana! How good is that?’” It looks like lots of people agree with him: The pop

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Health Connect can now track your steps using your Android phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 03:52:54

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is officially adding native step tracking to Health Connect, as confirmed by Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2. The company announced the change today, and a new banner and “Devices” page within the app now explicitly state Health Connect will track your phone’s steps for other apps to use. This marks a significant shift for the platform, turning it from a simple data hub into a fitness tracking service. Last week, we reported that Google was bringing nat

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Fed Chair Powell Says AI Probably a Factor in Concerning Unemployment Rates

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-09-25 03:20:48

The Fed decided to cut interest rates on Wednesday, citing a weak labor market as the reason. The latest jobs report showed that U.S. employers only added 22,000 jobs in August, down from the 79,000 in July, showing a dramatic slowing in hiring. It was the worst August report since the pandemic and it got the Federal Reserve Board concerned. In a press conference on Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell was asked whether he thinks AI has any effect on this trend. Powell said that although there i

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My Favorite iOS 26 Feature Can Block Spam Calls. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 18:00:08

Apple released iOS 26 on Monday, a few months after the company announced it at the June Worldwide Developers Conference. The update includes a Liquid Glass redesign, new ringtones and lots of hidden features for your iPhone. It also has a new call screening feature that lets you stop spam calls from bothering you. Call screening isn't an Apple Intelligence feature, so any iOS 26-compatible iPhone, like the iPhone 14 Pro, can use it. I enabled the feature early in the beta process, and my iPhon

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Microsoft Paint is getting its own Photoshop-like project files

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-25 03:01:16

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft has been steadily improving its Paint app for Windows 11 in recent years with a dark mode, transparency and layers, and even AI-powered image creation. Now, Microsoft is adding two new Photoshop-like features to Paint. You’ll soon be able to save your Paint creations as a project

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Is Data Modeling Dead?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 08:14:15

Ok, not going to lie, I rarely find anything of value in the dregs of r/dataengineering, mostly I fear, because it’s %90 freshers with little to no experience. These green behind the ear know-it-all engineers who’ve never written a line of Perl, SSH’d into a server, and have no idea what a LAMP stack is. Weak. Sad. We used to program our way to glory, up hill both ways in the snow. All you do is script kiddy some Python code through Cursor. A recent post on Data Modeling, specifically that dat

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Scientists Identify Rare Blue Pigment in Iconic Jackson Pollock Painting—But It’s Now Off-Limits

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-25 11:10:48

Jackson Pollock was a famous American painter best known for his abstract expressionism, including the “drip and splash” and the “all-over” style of painting (which look exactly like they sound). Now we finally know the chemical origin of the blue color he splattered onto his iconic Number 1A, 1948. Researchers investigated the vibrant pigment via laser spectroscopy, a technique scientists use to investigate matter at the atomic level. With this approach, they revealed it to be manganese blue,

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A New Look at ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Reveals an Essential Ingredient: Tight Pants

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-25 11:37:19

What binds the Star Wars galaxy together? Is it the Force? The desire for injustice to be rebelled against, for the light to rise against the dark? Well, in the case of a certain kind of ne’er-do-well in pockets of the galaxy… it’s a real tight pair of pants, and now Ryan Gosling stands among their wearers. We previously got a shadowed glimpse at Gosling’s new Star Wars character when Lucasfilm officially unveiled Star Wars: Starfighter‘s beginning of production a few weeks ago. But now directo

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Robots Could Help Kids Become Better Readers, According to a New Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 11:00:04

Learning to read is difficult, and reading aloud is anxiety inducing for plenty of kids. From not being able to pronounce a word, to being mocked by their peers for stumbling while speaking, reading out loud can cause anxiety and make kids less likely to want to read. The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison have released a new study that shows there may be an unlikely ally that can help. Social robots may be the key in helping kids build conf

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The Astro A20 X headset was made for multi-console homes

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-25 11:00:00

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Logitech has announced the Astro A20 X wireless gaming headset, which has a feature that console players might appreciate having: it lets you swap between audio from two platforms, be it an Xbox, Switch, PC, or PS5. It launches October 8th for $179.99. The A20 X ships with a transmitter called the Playsync Base that can receive audio in

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Logitech’s Pro X2 Superstrike offers haptic-based clicks and rapid trigger

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-25 11:01:00

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Logitech’s next flagship wireless gaming mouse is ditching mechanical switches for an analog system equipped with haptics actuators to simulate the feeling of a click. The mouse is called the Pro X2 Superstrike, and it’s coming early next year for $1

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AirPods Pro 3 vs AirPods Pro 1: What’s new after two generations?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-25 15:28:20

AirPods Pro 3 are set to launch in just two days, and they’re a rather notable upgrade – even if you’re coming from the previous-generation AirPods Pro 2. But, if you skipped that upgrade – AirPods Pro 3 are a massive leap for a plethora of reasons. Here’s exactly what you gain after 6 years of upgrades. Better noise cancellation This is the easiest thing to point out, especially since Apple themselves highlighted it in the keynote. Compared to the original AirPods Pro, noise cancellation perf

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AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-09-25 15:00:00

pressureUA/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Several frontier AI models show signs of scheming. Anti-scheming training reduced misbehavior in some models. Models know they're being tested, which complicates results. New joint safety testing from UK-based nonprofit Apollo Research and OpenAI set out to reduce secretive behaviors like scheming in AI models. What researchers found could complicate promising ap

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Zoom's New AI Tool Will Tell You What Meetings to Skip

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 15:00:03

The next time your boss asks you why you skipped a meeting, you could blame it on Zoom. The video conferencing company unveiled a host of new AI upgrades on Wednesday, all aimed at improving its AI to do tasks for you. Zoom introduced its AI companion two years ago, letting people use it to take notes, transcribe meetings or ask its chatbot follow-up questions after a meeting is over. Now, Zoom is upgrading it to what it calls AI Companion 3.0. The tool will be more agentic, meaning it is built

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How to Change Your Kindle’s Language: Spanish, French, Japanese, and More (2025)

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-09-25 15:17:21

Looking to learn a new language? Reading is a great way to start, and you don't need a physical book to do it: Here's how to change your Kindle's language (and download books in other languages!) to learn right from your favorite e-reader. Reading a different language helps you expand your vocabulary and nail down nuances like sentence structure, and for visual learners like myself it can be the ideal way to start really learning information. Lucky for all of us e-reader lovers, Kindle's ebook

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You can soon attend Zoom meetings as your AI avatar

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-25 15:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Zoom’s vision of filling meetings with AI clones has nearly arrived. On Wednesday, the video conferencing app announced that you’ll soon be able to create a “photorealistic” avatar of yourself in case you aren’t “camera-ready.” That means your AI avatar can appe

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Garmin’s Venu 4 adds an LED flashlight and accessibility upgrades

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-25 15:08:12

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Garmin is launching its Venu 4 smartwatch today, expanding on the accessibility and sleep tracking features introduced with the Venu 3 two years ago. It’s available now in 41mm and 45mm models and starts at $549.99 which is $100 more expensive than the Venu 3

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Zoom launches a cross application AI notetaker, AI avatars and more in its latest update

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-25 15:00:00

Zoom on Wednesday launched new products at its Zoomtopia conference, including an upgraded AI companion that can work across meeting apps, as well as the ability to add your own notes, AI-powered meeting scheduling, and AI avatars that resemble users. With these features, the company aims to compete with verticalized meeting startups and productivity suites. The company has long offered an AI bot that can record and transcribe Zoom meetings. However, cross-application meeting notetakers like Re

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You can't test if quantum uses complex numbers

news.ycombinator.com Craig Gidney 2025-09-23 14:58:00

In 2021, Renou et al published the paper “Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified” in Nature. It caused a decent sized splash at the time. A quick search revealed articles in Quanta and Scientific American and APS News, as well as a talk at QIP 2022. In this post, I’m going to explain why the title of the paper is wrong. The Goal Before we get going, I need to warn you away from a common misunderstanding of Renou et al’s claim. Renou et al are NOT claiming that it

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How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 18:25:24

We have an air bike in our basement. If you are unfamiliar with air bikes, they are similar to stationary bikes with foot pedals but also have handles you push and pull with your arms. It uses air resistance, so the harder you pedal and move your arms, the higher the resistance. It’s also known as an assault bike. 😬 Which is apt, because it’s a butt-kicker of a workout. I use it about once a week, more frequently in the winter when it’s too cold to run, and less often in the summer when I can

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New PS5 Update Lets DualSense Controllers Pair With Multiple Devices at the Same Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 19:32:55

All you PlayStation 5 players can now pair your wireless DualSense controllers with up to four devices at a time and toggle among them. For some time, you've been able to pair your DualSense controllers not just with PS5s and other PlayStation consoles, but also with PCs, Macs, smartphones and other Bluetooth devices. But that pairing could happen with only one device at a time; using a different device with a DualSense required pairing all over again. That changes now, with system update 25.0

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Tariffs kill the Starling Home Hub, Google Nest’s best bridge to Apple Home

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-09-25 19:24:18

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I have bad news for ecosystem straddlers who use Google Nest products in their smart homes but rely on iPhones and Apple Home for control: the much-loved Starling Home Hub has been discontinued. In a message on its website, Starling

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Not even your kitchen is safe from ads after Samsung’s new update for its refrigerators

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 23:02:11

TL;DR Samsung is allegedly rolling out a new software update for some of its smart refrigerators. The update adds advertisements to the display on the refrigerator door on certain themes. The changelog frames the ads as a feature, but users can avoid them by selecting specific ad-free themes — for now. Imagine paying top dollar for a brand-new high-end refrigerator only to be greeted with ads on the door display. Sounds like a nightmare? Unfortunately, this nightmare is coming true for Samsun

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9to5Mac Daily: September 17, 2025 – watchOS 26 features, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-09-25 23:29:40

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by iMazing: iMazing lets you back up, transfer, and manage your iPhone and iPad data like never before — including messages, photos, music, WhatsApp, voicemails, battery health, and more. No cloud required. Use code 9to5mac-20off to get 20% off, exclusively f

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‘The Muppet Show’ Is Getting a 50th Anniversary Disney+ Special

The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

Here’s Apple’s official method to charge your Apple Watch faster

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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

Two ‘Flying Cars’ Collide During Air Show Rehearsal in China

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator

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My Favorite iOS 26 Feature Can Block Spam Calls. Here's How It Works

Microsoft Paint is getting its own Photoshop-like project files

Is Data Modeling Dead?

Scientists Identify Rare Blue Pigment in Iconic Jackson Pollock Painting—But It’s Now Off-Limits

A New Look at ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Reveals an Essential Ingredient: Tight Pants

Robots Could Help Kids Become Better Readers, According to a New Study

The Astro A20 X headset was made for multi-console homes

Logitech’s Pro X2 Superstrike offers haptic-based clicks and rapid trigger

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AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows

Zoom's New AI Tool Will Tell You What Meetings to Skip

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You can soon attend Zoom meetings as your AI avatar

Garmin’s Venu 4 adds an LED flashlight and accessibility upgrades

Zoom launches a cross application AI notetaker, AI avatars and more in its latest update

You can't test if quantum uses complex numbers

How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do

New PS5 Update Lets DualSense Controllers Pair With Multiple Devices at the Same Time

Tariffs kill the Starling Home Hub, Google Nest’s best bridge to Apple Home

Not even your kitchen is safe from ads after Samsung’s new update for its refrigerators

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