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Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-28 20:00:00

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. Google is rolling out an update for Gemini that will allow the AI chatbot to “remember” your past conversations without prompting. With the setting turned on, Gemini will automatically recall your “key details and preferences” and use them to personalize its out

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Humanoid Robots Are Beating Each Other to Pulp in an Underground Fight Club

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-28 23:43:02

In a tucked-away San Francisco warehouse, four humanoid robots hang out — quite literally, from standalone frames — as they wait for their flesh-and-blood overlords to train them to kill. As reporter and writer Ashlee Vance writes on his Substack Core Memory, this entirely robotic fight club is known as REK, and is operated by virtual reality entrepreneur and fighting robot enthusiast Cix Liv. With one big robot battle win under his belt from San Francisco's Ultimate Fighting Bots (UFB) league

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Here’s how Google Find Hub satellite location sharing is going to work (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 05:26:52

TL;DR Google announced back in May that the newly renamed Find Hub would be adding support for satellite-based location sharing. That’s still not here yet, but a recent app update reveals text strings that hint at how things will work. Users will be able to share their location once every 15 minutes, with a daily limit on maximum shares. Satellite support is changing the rules of the game when it comes to mobile connectivity, and we are still right now only in the early days of its evolution.

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OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-28 21:11:16

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI is once again making GPT-4o — the large language model (LLM) that powered ChatGPT before last week’s launch of GPT-5 — a default option for all paying users, that is, those who subscribe to the ChatGPT Plus ($20 per month), Pro ($200 per month), Team ($30 per month), Enterprise, or Edu tiers, no longer requiring users to toggle on a

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Android phone feeling slow? I changed these 4 settings to revitalize the whole system

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-29 10:59:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the new best smartphone, the majority of consumers don't upgrade every year. I have friends and family who tell me they don't want to upgrade and ask, "How can I make my current phone faster?" I finally have an answer. Also: I test dozens of Android phones every year: Here's how Google, Samsung, and more stack up I don't get to use review

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Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 23:22:37

Floating-point numbers are a great invention in computer science, but they can also be tricky and troublesome to use correctly. I’ve written about them already by publishing Floating-Point Formats Cheatsheet and presentation “Pitfalls of floating-point numbers” (“Pułapki liczb zmiennoprzecinkowych” – the slides are in Polish). Last year I was preparing for a more extensive talk about this topic, but it got cancelled, like pretty much everything in these hard times of the COVID-19 pandemic. So in

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Evaluating GPT5's reasoning ability using the Only Connect game show

news.ycombinator.com Alberto Manzi 2025-11-28 05:52:51

Given the proliferation of reasoning models, we wanted to go beyond knowledge-based benchmarks to test reasoning abilities such as pattern recognition, lateral thinking, abstraction, contextual reasoning (accounting for British cultural references), and multi-step inference. In addition to reasoning, we aimed to assess how effectively models make decisions when presented with judgment calls—such as choosing between making an educated guess based on available clues or calling a function to retri

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The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation

news.ycombinator.com Charles Petzold 2025-11-29 10:26:34

The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation May 17, 2025 Roscoe, N.Y. I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online book-in-progress The Lost Art of Logarithms. Although the book is mostly focused on the history, use, meaning, and importance of logarithms, I believe that even histories of science and mathematics profit by being placed within political, cultural, social, and religious contexts. This is particularly true of John Napier’s

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You can pick ChatGPT's older AI models again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 15:15:49

ChatGPT will now allow you to choose between several GPT-5 variants and previous OpenAI models. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that the chatbot's model picker now comes with three GPT-5 choices: Auto, Fast and Thinking. He said most "will want Auto," which is most likely the standard version that's already a reasoning model. But users will be able to choose the fast-responding version or the Thinking version that implies it delivers longer, more comprehensive answers if they

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I pried open a cheap 600W charger to test its build, and found 'goo' inside

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-29 22:45:15

It's easy to silkscreen 600W on the product, but can the product live up to the hype? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I test dozens of chargers every year. Some are excellent, while others fall short. Here on ZDNET, I only feature the cream of the crop -- the best of the best. However, I occasionally receive requests from readers asking for my thoughts or opinions on specific products. Lately, one product that's been generating a lot of buzz is this 600W GaN charger. Also: This wall charger repl

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I've used Rakuten for a year and earned nearly $500 - here's how

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-11-30 00:00:17

Kayla Solino/ZDNET What if I told you that you can save on that purchase you were about to make via cash back, and that it's as easy as enabling a browser extension or using an app? While it sounds questionable, I'm here to quell your concerns. I've been using Rakuten's cash back program for over a year, and I've saved around $450 so far. I began using the platform in early 2024 -- and now I'm a user for life. Also: 3 ways Google Chrome and Wallet just made shopping a whole lot easier But be

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Changing these 4 Android phone settings made the system feel like new again

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-11-30 00:15:14

Kerry Wan/ZDNET As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the new best smartphone, the majority of consumers don't upgrade every year. I have friends and family who tell me they don't want to upgrade and ask, "How can I make my current phone faster?" I finally have an answer. Also: I test dozens of Android phones every year: Here's how Google, Samsung, and more stack up I don't get to use review

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Fingerjigger

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 12:36:29

Fingerjigger is a fun typing game - how fast can you type? Unfortunately you don't have JavaScript enabled! You'll need to turn JavaScript on in order to play Fingerjigger.

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Illegal Price-Gouging Runs Rampant After Disasters. The LA Fires Proved It

gizmodo.com Jake Bittle 2025-11-30 02:00:23

Last January, a series of massive wildfires broke out across the Los Angeles area, fueled by high winds and dry temperatures. The fires raged for weeks, incinerating entire neighborhoods in the wealthy Pacific Palisades and in middle-class Altadena. They killed at least 30 people and destroyed at least 10,000 homes. As the embers cooled, thousands of displaced Angelenos scrambled to find new housing in a rental market that was already among the nation’s toughest. They scoured Zillow and Airbnb

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The Anti-Pattern Game

news.ycombinator.com Håkon Robbestad Gylterud 2025-11-26 23:14:40

The anti-pattern game Håkon Robbestad Gylterud Here is a small game I though of when taking a course on modal logic. It is a bit too tedious to be played by humans, but I had great fun finding a winning stategy for it – and there are still simple questions about this game I cannot answer. The rules The anti-pattern game is a two-player game. It is played using black and white pebbles (like Go). These pebbles are placed in sequence on a line. On their turn the player has a simple choice: to co

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Spirit Airlines Admits It Might Not Survive Another Year

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-30 03:08:52

Spirit Airlines has just admitted what many suspected: its future is in serious doubt. The news, delivered in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, sent the company’s stock into a freefall, plummeting 41% in a single trading session on Tuesday. Spirit’s total market value now sits at a paltry $54.3 million. In the filing, the ultra-low-cost carrier said there is “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue operating for more than 12 months from the date of its

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Match Group will pay $14 million to settle claims of deceptive business practices

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 10:45:06

The Federal Trade Commission announced that Match Group will pay $14 million to settle a complaint about deceptive practices. The settlement fee will be used to provide redress to injured customers of Match Group's dating services, which include Match.com, Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and PlentyOfFish. The agency sued Match Group in 2019 on a series of allegations. According to the complaint, the dating service company had used misleading ads to encourage subscriptions and then made it difficult for

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This Threshold-Climbing Robot Vacuum Overcame Every Obstacle in My Home

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 09:00:00

CNET's key takeaways No robot vacuum has truly solved the challenge of multilevel cleaning without requiring you to physically move it between floors. This robo-vac can do it, for the high-end price of $1,700. You won't find another robot vacuum with its features for less than $1,000 right now. The whole point of owning a robot vacuum is so you don't have to do the cleaning yourself. But that was never the case at my house -- partly because of what I call my "Ikea chair challenge." I've seen

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Circle shares fall after stablecoin issuer says it will offer 10 million shares

cnbc.com Christina Cheddar Berk 2025-11-30 15:17:13

Circle Internet Group Initial Public Offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Circle Internet Group stock tumbled more than 5% in extended trading Tuesday after it said it would offer 10 million Class A shares to the public. Of the total stock being offered, 2 million shares will be offered by Circle. The remaining 8 million shares will be sold by stockholders. The stablecoin issuer's shares have soared more than 450% since it went public on June 5. As pa

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What are Apple’s options for an AI acquisition beyond Perplexity?

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-30 15:26:30

Since Apple’s latest earnings call, talk of a potential Perplexity acquisition has quieted down (the fact that Perplexity was once again allegedly caught red-handed sidestepping content restrictions didn’t help). Meanwhile, with the ever-increasing number of engineers from its Foundation Models team jumping ship, Apple’s need for fresh talent is getting more urgent by the day. But if Perplexity is a no-go, who else could Apple buy? I used to agree with Jason Snell’s frequent argument on the Up

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John Malkovich to join Apple TV+ rom-com starring The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-01 00:14:22

Legendary actor John Malkovich (Burn After Reading, Rounders) has been confirmed as a guest star in “Prodigies”, an upcoming seven-episode Apple TV+ series also featuring Ayo Edebiri (The Bear, Inside Out 2). Here are the details Apple first announced Prodigies in April, a new comedy created by Will Sharpe (The White Lotus, A Real Pain), and featuring Edebiri, who’s also executive producer. Here’s Apple’s description of the show: This unusual take on a classic romantic comedy explores the uni

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Is your iPhone alarm not going off? 6 potential fixes that worked for me

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-12-01 00:28:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I started noticing something very annoying at the beginning of the year: I'd set my iPhone alarm for 7 a.m., only to sleep right through it. At first I assumed it was my mistake -- maybe I'd accidentally left the ringer volume all the way down. But after double-checking that, even switching off vibrate and cranking the volume all the way up overnight, the problem persisted. Somewhere between frustration and desperation, I installed a third-party alarm app to try an

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Hurricane Swarms Are a Thing We Have to Worry About Now

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-01 00:50:35

In early October 2024, hurricanes Milton, Kirk, and Leslie churned in the Atlantic Basin—the first time on record that three Atlantic hurricanes were simultaneously active after September, according to NOAA. New research warns that tropical cyclone “clusters” are becoming more common in this part of the world, compounding the hazards of hurricane season. Tropical cyclone clusters occur when two or more hurricanes are active within the same basin at the same time. The western North Pacific has h

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Tempur-Pedic Cooling Tech Helps You Sleep in the Heat

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 21:51:00

A cool sleep environment doesn't just feel better: Mountains of research show that it's also crucial to getting good-quality sleep. Our bodies begin the transition into sleep by dropping in temperature, and being cool helps us stay asleep so that we awaken feeling ready to tackle the day ahead. But slipping into dreamland can be a difficult task, especially when the summer heat waves set in. Thankfully, Tempur-Pedic's ProBreeze and LuxeBreeze mattresses are specifically built with exclusive coo

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UK government suggests deleting files to save water

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-12-01 00:11:39

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Can deleting old emails and photos help the UK tackle ongoing drought this year? That’s the hope, according to recommendations for the public included in a press release today from the Nat

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Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-12-01 05:10:33

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI coding wars are heating up. One of the main battlegrounds? “Context windows,” or an AI model’s working memory — the amount of text it can take into account when it’s coming up with an answer. On that front, Anthropic just gained some

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Windows 11 KB5063878 & KB5063875 cumulative updates released

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-01 10:34:26

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5063878 and KB5063875 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. Today's updates are mandatory as they contain the August 2025 Patch Tuesday security patches for vulnerabilities discovered in previous months. You can install today's update by going to Start > Settings > Windows Update and clicking on 'Check for Updates.' You can also manually download and install the update from the Microsoft Update Catalog. I

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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 08:24:51

Robotics engineers at the University of Würzburg have developed a novel 3D laser scanner system for precise plant analysis in the field for the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam. Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many researchers are therefore working on harvesting robots that could provide welcome support to agricultural businesses in the future. ‘There are already a few pro

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Back-to-School Spending Is Down 50%, CNET Survey Finds. Here's How to Get the Tech and Gear You Need for Less

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 10:00:00

Back-to-school shopping is underway, and the supply list isn't like it was when I was a kid. More schools and colleges are leaning on technology for educational purposes, and some of those costs could fall on US shoppers. Big-ticket purchases, like laptops and tablets, can be a strain on your finances, especially when juggling other back-to-school items and everyday expenses. CNET's new back-to-school survey dives into just how much US shoppers are concerned about making tech purchases ahead o

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Claude can now process entire software projects in single request, Anthropic says

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-01 15:00:03

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic announced Tuesday that its Claude Sonnet 4 artificial intelligence model can now process up to 1 million tokens of context in a single request — a fivefold increase that allows developers to analyze entire software projects or dozens of research papers without breaking them into smaller chunks. The expansion, available now in pub

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Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

Humanoid Robots Are Beating Each Other to Pulp in an Underground Fight Club

Here’s how Google Find Hub satellite location sharing is going to work (APK teardown)

OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again

Android phone feeling slow? I changed these 4 settings to revitalize the whole system

Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)

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You can pick ChatGPT's older AI models again

I pried open a cheap 600W charger to test its build, and found 'goo' inside

I've used Rakuten for a year and earned nearly $500 - here's how

Changing these 4 Android phone settings made the system feel like new again

Fingerjigger

Illegal Price-Gouging Runs Rampant After Disasters. The LA Fires Proved It

The Anti-Pattern Game

Spirit Airlines Admits It Might Not Survive Another Year

Match Group will pay $14 million to settle claims of deceptive business practices

This Threshold-Climbing Robot Vacuum Overcame Every Obstacle in My Home

Circle shares fall after stablecoin issuer says it will offer 10 million shares

What are Apple’s options for an AI acquisition beyond Perplexity?

John Malkovich to join Apple TV+ rom-com starring The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri

Is your iPhone alarm not going off? 6 potential fixes that worked for me

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Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars

Windows 11 KB5063878 & KB5063875 cumulative updates released

New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

Back-to-School Spending Is Down 50%, CNET Survey Finds. Here's How to Get the Tech and Gear You Need for Less

Claude can now process entire software projects in single request, Anthropic says

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