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Apple's iOS 18.6.1 Brings This Redesigned Feature Back to Some Devices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 09:00:02

Apple released iOS 18.6.1 on Aug. 14 after the tech giant mentioned the mobile software update in a blog post earlier that day. The update introduces a redesigned blood oxygen experience to iPhones paired with certain Apple Watches, but not much else. You can download iOS 18.6.1 by going to Settings, then tapping General. Next, select Software Update, then tap Update Now and follow the prompts on your screen. People with an Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 or Apple Watch Ultra 2 can also downlo

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Masimo sues US Customs over Apple Watch blood oxygen workaround

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-02 23:40:37

Last week, when Apple announced the release of a “redesigned Blood Oxygen feature” to the Apple Watch, many figured Masimo (who had been suing Apple over patents related to the feature), would look for a way to fight back. Today, the company did just that and filed a new lawsuit. But this time, it’s against the US Customs and Border Protection. Here’s why. A bit of background When Apple released the Blood Oxygen feature on the Apple Watch, medical device maker Masimo sued over alleged patent i

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Zoox taps ex-Uber Pool exec’s startup for routing software help

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-03 14:00:00

When James Cox, the former leader of Uber’s ride-share product, Uber Pool, left that company in 2019, the Silicon Valley giant had abandoned its autonomous vehicle development and sold off the division entirely. While Uber Pool had struggled to take hold, Cox felt a massive opportunity had been missed: taking the core of Uber Pool’s tech and applying it to robotaxis. For the last five years, Cox has instead been running a small startup called The Routing Company, which helps transit agencies ma

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Xbox unveils its Handheld Compatibility Program

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-03 23:26:35

Microsoft announced Wednesday during Gamescom 2025 that not only will its Xbox Ally handhelds be released on October 16, but the company is spinning up a new initiative to support optimized gaming on these devices called the Handheld Compatibility Program. The initiative seems to be similar to Valve's Steam Deck Verified , where Xbox will test games to ensure their compatibility with the new Xbox Ally handhelds. "We have worked with game studios to test, optimize, and verify thousands of games

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ROG Xbox Ally: Release Date, Specs, Price and How It Compares to Steam Deck

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 21:24:00

The Steam Deck has yet to find a real competitor in the PC handheld gaming device battle. Other hardware companies, including Asus, Lenovo and MSI, have tried, but so far, their devices keep falling short. Asus plans to try to take another swipe at the crown, though, this time with the help of Microsoft. In June, the two revealed their partnership for a new handheld device: the ROG Xbox Ally. This handheld will come in two variants and will attempt to bring the Xbox console experience to a port

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8BitDo's charging dock for Xbox controllers costs just $20 right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 09:30:55

8BitDo is predominantly known for its excellent gamepads of all shapes and sizes , but it makes other accessories too, including a charging dock for the Xbox Wireless Controller that is currently 20 percent off. Right now you can grab the officially licensed dock for $20, down from its regular price of $25. 8BitDo’s charging dock is compatible with the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One variants of the Xbox Wireless Controller and uses magnetic contact charging to juice up your pad. It comes with a 1

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Xbox Ally handhelds will be available October 16, but we still don't know the price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 14:40:15

Xbox gamers will have a new option for taking their library on the go this fall. During Gamescom 2025, ASUS revealed that the Xbox Ally handheld consoles will be on store shelves on October 16. We heard a thorough explanation of the specs and availability for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X this summer, but the arrival date is the only new info to come from the major gaming event in Cologne. There's still no price available for these handhelds, but we expect to receive that critical detai

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We Now Know Everything About the First Xbox Handheld (Except the Most Important Thing)

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-04 14:40:03

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally is a mouthful of a name for a device, and yet I can’t stop saying the name—like I’m casting a spell—as we slide further toward the end of the year. At Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Microsoft and Asus are giving players a chance to wrap their mitts around the strange Xbox controller-like grips of the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X. While the companies will tell you when you’ll eventually be able to pick one off a store shelf, they’re not quite ready to tell you how much it’ll co

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Microsoft and Asus’ answers to SteamOS and the Steam Deck launch on October 16

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-04 14:40:27

Asus and Microsoft will be launching their ROG Xbox Ally series of handheld gaming PCs starting October 16, according to an Asus announcement that went out today. An Xbox-branded extension of Asus' existing ROG Ally handheld line, the basic ROG Xbox Ally and more powerful ROG Xbox Ally X, both run a version of Windows 11 Home that's been redesigned with a controller-first Xbox-style user interface. The idea is to preserve the wide game compatibility of Windows—and the wide compatibility with mu

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Zoox taps ex-UberPool exec’s startup for routing software help

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-04 20:00:00

When James Cox, the former leader of Uber’s ride-share product, UberPool, left that company in 2019, the Silicon Valley giant had abandoned its autonomous vehicle development and sold off the division entirely. While UberPool had struggled to take hold, Cox felt a massive opportunity had been missed: taking the core of UberPool’s tech and applying it to robotaxis. For the last five years Cox has instead been running a small startup called The Routing Company, which helps transit agencies match

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The First-Ever Prescription Gummy for Hair Loss: Everything You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 04:48:00

Losing between 50 to 100 hairs per day is normal, but shedding beyond that can be concerning and stressful. If you've tried serums, vitamins and topical solutions but nothing has helped, you're not alone. Even Gen Z Reddit users have the same concern, wondering what might be contributing to it and how to get rid of hair loss. How about a prescription gummy for hair loss? Hers, a telehealth company that provides online health care services and products for women, announced the launch of its Biot

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives on November 14

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 03:08:34

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will launch on November 14. Microsoft revealed the release date for the upcoming shooter sequel alongside a new trailer during Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2025. Notably, while Black Ops 7 will be on PC, PlayStation and Xbox at launch, it'll skip the Switch 2, despite a binding legal agreement between Microsoft and Nintendo that requires that the company's consoles receive the same access to Call of Duty as Xbox. Similar to past games in the series, Call of Duty: Bla

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Apple Watch regains edge in one key way

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-06 08:15:24

Apple Watch users in the United States are finally seeing Blood Oxygen readings return after nearly a year-long absence. Apple was forced to disable the feature on new Apple Watch hardware sold in the US following a patent dispute with medical technology company Masimo. The fix, released across this week and last, is a practical solution that works well, especially in helping Apple Watch remain competitive with the health and fitness focused Whoop product. With the release of iOS 18.6.1 and wa

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Gears of War, Dragon Age and Herdling Coming to Xbox Game Pass in August

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 08:45:38

Gears of War is one of the most iconic Xbox series, spawning sequels, spinoffs and books. I fell in love with the series almost 20 years ago when the original landed on the Xbox 360. So I can't wait to play the remastered edition of the game, called Gears of War: Reloaded, when it launches on Xbox Game Pass on Aug. 26. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, smart TV and PC

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Apple Watch regains edge over Whoop in one key way

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-06 14:15:24

Apple Watch users in the United States are finally seeing Blood Oxygen readings return after nearly a year-long absence. Apple was forced to disable the feature on new Apple Watch hardware sold in the US following a patent dispute with medical technology company Masimo. The fix, released across this week and last, is a practical solution that works well, especially in helping Apple Watch remain competitive with the health and fitness focused Whoop product. With the release of iOS 18.6.1 and wa

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CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow 2025-11-06 12:18:27

Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). Tens of millions of TLS server certificates are issued each day to secure communications between browsers and websites. These certificates are the cornerstones of ubiquitous encryption and a key part of our vision for the web. While a certificate can be valid for up to 398 days, it can also be revoked at any p

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ROG Xbox Ally: Specs, Price Leaks and How It Compares to Steam Deck

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 22:34:46

The Steam Deck has yet to find a real competitor in the PC handheld gaming device battle. Other hardware companies, including Asus, Lenovo and MSI have tried, but so far, their devices keep falling short. Asus plans to try to take another swipe at the crown, though, this time with the help of Microsoft. In June, the two revealed their partnership for a new handheld device: the ROG Xbox Ally. This handheld will come in two variants and will attempt to bring the Xbox console experience to a porta

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Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 04:14:44

A few years ago, I moved to Arc as my default browser. I felt like everything was immediately upgraded: finally, a web browser worked how I needed it to. The interface got out of the way; it was superpowered with keyboard shortcuts that just made sense (a bit like other professional tools like Superhuman); and its profiles feature allowed me to fully sandbox my work activity away from my personal activity. It’s how I want a browser to work. Unfortunately, it didn’t live up to the goals its vend

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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Star Elijah Wood on Cult Remakes and Why He Loves Weird Movies

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-07 04:00:46

Elijah Wood will always be associated with the Lord of the Rings movies, but the actor has also built up a varied array of unusual characters across his career. Maybe his weirdest yet comes with The Toxic Avenger, the long-awaited remake of the cult classic that’s finally hitting theaters later this month. Wood has a memorable supporting role as Fritz, the brother and henchman of Kevin Bacon’s sleazy villain. He’s not as freaky-looking as the title mutant, played in human form by Peter Dinklage,

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Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes

news.ycombinator.com Steve Weinman 2025-11-07 23:04:11

How Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes The world record for longest underwater breath-hold using oxygen is often viewed as much as a conjuring trick as an athletic feat – and at one time the title was indeed held by US magician David Blaine. But now a remarkable new mark has been set by a Croatian already recognised for his more conventional competitive freediving achievements. Vitomir Maričić has set a new Guinness World Record (GWR) of 29min 3sec for “the longest breath held volun

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Roblox is locking down sexual content and access to ‘adult’ locations after lawsuits

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-08 09:56:59

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Roblox is updating its policies prohibiting romantic or sexual content to also forbid “content, settings, or behavior that implies sexual activity,” according to a Friday post from chief safety officer Matt Kaufman (emphasis Kaufman’s). The changes follow recent lawsuits against the compa

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Microsoft hints at ‘more affordable’ Xbox Cloud Gaming plan

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-09 04:21:21

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. Two years ago we learned, thanks to the FTC, that Microsoft was working on a separate “dedicated” version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Microsoft Gaming CFO Tim Stuart then hinted, a few months later, that there could be a free version Xbox Cloud Gaming in exchange for ads. Now, Microsoft is hintin

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New iOS 26 and watchOS 26 betas include redesigned Blood Oxygen feature in the US

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-09 09:51:07

Apple is out with iOS 26 beta 7 and watchOS 26 beta 7 today for developers. Most notably, the updates include the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature that Apple announced last week for Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2 users in the United States. Apple launched the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature as part of iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1 last week, 18 months after it began selling the Apple Watch without the Blood Oxygen feature in America due to a patent dispute with health technology co

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Best Lunch Boxes and Backpacks for the 2025 School Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 09:00:00

Back-to-school is just around the corner, and with the start of the new school year right around the corner, you may be looking for the perfect backpack and lunch box for your kids. As kids start a new grade, these items can inspire excitement and even motivation. Picking out a backpack and lunch box used to be simple. These days, the options (and price points) seem to be limitless. The good news is that at least lunch boxes have gotten a major upgrade in recent years -- they can actually keep

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Is Roblox Getting Worse?

wired.com David Gilbert 2025-11-10 18:00:00

Roblox can’t keep up. After years of criticism that its platform isn’t safe for the young gamers it caters to, the multibillion-dollar company announced in July that it was rolling out new measures to protect users, including an AI-powered age-verification system and other privacy tools. But researchers, experts, and lawyers have concerns the changes won’t stop Roblox’s bigger problem: staying ahead of individuals using the platform to exploit players. On Roblox, kids do what they want. Launche

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Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 12:52:03

doxx 📄 Beautiful .docx viewing in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required doxx is a lightning-fast, terminal-native document viewer for Microsoft Word files. Built with Rust for performance and reliability, it brings Word documents to your command line with beautiful rendering, smart table support, and powerful export capabilities. ✨ Features Document viewing 🎨 Beautiful terminal rendering with syntax highlighting and formatting with syntax highlighting and formatting 📊 Professional tab

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Roblox cracks down on its user-created content following multiple child safety lawsuits

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 02:34:52

Following a wave of lawsuits alleging that Roblox doesn't provide a safe environment for its underage users, the gaming platform made a series of sweeping updates to its policies. To address recent concerns, Roblox published a post on its website detailing these major changes, including restricting all unrated experiences, which is what Roblox calls its user-generated games, to the developer or those actively working with them. Roblox said this change will roll out in the coming months, represen

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Best Mineral Sunscreen of 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 00:39:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Sunscreen is an important part of skin care year-round, but especially in the summer, when we tend to be outside more often in more intense sun. Mineral sunscreens (also called physical sunscreens) tend to be a great fit for those with sensitive skin. While chemical sunscreens absorb UV rays, mineral sunscreens reflect the rays u

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The viral Toniebox is exactly what both kids and parents want from a smart device (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-09 22:00:19

Maria Diaz/ZDNET My kid had been asking for a Toniebox for two years, but I always talked her out of it. I'm no Grinch, but each set basic starter kit is $100. Then we finally got one during a Prime Day sales event. Testing a Toniebox has not only convinced me that it's perfect for my kids and worth every penny, but it's such a great device that I'd recommend it to any parent of young children. Here's why. Also: I ditched my Bluetooth speakers for this slick turntable - and it's more practical

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The 20 Best Xbox Games Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 00:29:00

Over the past two decades, Microsoft has turned the Xbox brand into a veritable juggernaut in the console gaming world. The Xbox Series X and Series S, the combined fourth generation of the Xbox, have sold over 21 million units. The Xbox One, which was still supported until 2023, sold over 58 million units worldwide. As Microsoft shifts its focus toward supporting console and PC gamers alike with the Game Pass subscription service, there's never been a larger ecosystem of Xbox consoles to choos

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