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How to clear your Android phone cache (and why it's the easiest way to speed it up)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-12-15 14:49:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 15:37:00

Open source is usually seen as a win - for learning, visibility, and the community. But have you ever regretted it? Maybe it became a burden to maintain, attracted the wrong users, or got used in ways you didn’t expect. Would love to hear your experience - good or bad.

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Zoo Asks Visitors to Donate Their Pets to Feed the Carnivores, Gets Fed to the Lions on Social Media

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-15 14:00:10

A zoo in Denmark has made an unusual request: if you feel like it, send us your pets so we can keep our lovely predator population well-fed. As one would expect, there’s been a bit of public outcry over the “Chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs form an important part of the diet of our predators,” the zoo said, in a Facebook post, noting that such animals are “reminiscent of what” predators would “naturally hunt in nature.” It added: “In zoos, we have a responsibility to emulate the animal’s natur

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Best Vitamins and Supplements for Women in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 12:01:00

Nature Made makes some of the most affordable vitamins available. The Nature Made women's multivitamin includes 23 nutrients essential for women, including 100% of the recommended daily value of iron. Iron is one of the most common deficiencies in women, especially when pregnant or menstruating. With Nature Made, you get over the recommended value of vitamin C, D3 and E, as well as minerals zinc, copper and chromium. So if you are not deficient in those areas, you could get too much of them. Co

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Google Gemini can now create AI-generated bedtime stories

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-15 14:03:45

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 rolled out a new tool within its Gemini AI chatbot that lets you create an illustrated story by simply describing it. The feature, called “Storybook,” generates 10-page stories, each with a short paragraph of text that Gemini can read aloud, along with an

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Linda Yaccarino joins health tech platform eMed as CEO after leaving X

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-15 14:20:11

Linda Yaccarino’s next role after departing X as CEO will be another chief executive role at eMed Population Health, an AI startup building a tech platform for patients using GLP-1s. Yaccarino was a longtime advertising executive at NBCUniversal but left to join X as CEO for two years, where she managed to have a positive impact on the social network’s troubled ad revenue model, despite her and Elon Musk’s shared approach to minimizing content moderation. Though Yaccarino does not have experie

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Sonos Roam speakers are overheating and partially melting, company admits

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-15 18:08:22

Complaints on Reddit shared over the past week have exposed a problem with Sonos’ first-gen Roam speakers overheating and partially melting, which the company just acknowledged while downplaying the number of known cases. Reports of overheating Sonos Roam speakers acknowledged Chris Welch writes at Bloomberg: Sonos Inc. acknowledged a “very low” number of complaints from customers who claim the audio brand’s first-generation Roam speaker has overheated and partially melted near the USB-C port

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One mic, four modes: BOYA Magic now available after successful Kickstarter

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-15 23:00:00

Looking for a way to step up your creative capture game? BOYA is out with a new modular microphone with AI-powered noise cancelation that works with a range of devices. The BOYA Magic is being billed as the world’s first AI-powered, shape-shifting wireless microphone, and it’s now available after a successful Kickstarter campaign. The standout feature here is the transformable design that eliminates the need for multiple microphones. At just 13mm thin and weighing only 7g, BOYA Magic seamlessl

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Google's Pixel Watch 4, Fold Pro 10 and Buds 2a are rumored to launch later than the rest of its new gear

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-15 23:50:20

Google has an event lined up for August 20 and has promised to reveal "new Pixel phones, watches, buds" and more. However, rumors have been swirling that the company won't have many of these products ready to go after being unveiled. Winfuture has reported that the Pixel Watch 4, Fold Pro 10 and Buds 2a will be announced at the Made by Google event, but won't be available until October . The Pixel 10 line of smartphones will reportedly be available on August 28, which is just around a week afte

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Illinois Bans AI From Providing Therapy

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-15 23:00:04

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed, on Friday, a new measure that bans AI from acting as a therapist or counselor and limits its use to strictly administrative or support roles. The Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act comes as states and federal regulators are starting to grapple with how to protect patients from the growing and mostly unregulated use of AI in health care. The new law prohibits individuals and businesses from advertising or offering any therapy services, i

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'Lilo & Stitch' Gets a Streaming Release Date on Disney Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 22:44:04

Disney is set to welcome one of its most beloved characters to its streaming home on Disney Plus with the arrival of Lilo & Stitch next month. The live-action release has raked in just over $1 billion at the box office and will make its way to your TV screen, finding a seat next to its animated predecessor on the streaming platform. Lilo & Stitch revisits the original story of 6-year-old Lilo, a Hawaiian girl being cared for by her older sister Nani, and Stitch, a little blue fugitive alien. Th

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Beyond Retrieval: The Expanding Universe of Augmented Generation in AI

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-16 02:00:01

Introduction Standard large language models (LLMs) possess vast knowledge but struggle with limitations like hallucinations and accessing real-time information due to their static training data. This has spurred the development of dynamic AI architectures. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a key solution, integrating external knowledge into the generation process. However, the field is rapidly evolving beyond basic RAG. Newer models like RASG (Retrieval-Augmented Self-Generate

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The best 50-inch TVs of 2025: Expert tested from Samsung, LG, and more

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-12-16 03:59:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Should you buy a refurbished MacBook? I tried one from Back Market - here's my verdict

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-16 04:22:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I remember when people used to scoff at refurbished tech. Buying a used phone or computer was like rolling the dice: you never knew exactly what you were getting. Well, the times certainly have changed. And, in this economy, the prices on refurbished tech are looking more and more tempting. Consumers are challenging this idea that we're all supposed to buy brand new phones and laptops every few years, and in the process, the market for refurbished tech has blown up. Also:

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I pack light, but this universal travel charger earned a place in my bag - here's why

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-16 04:31:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy

news.ycombinator.com Maxine Joselow 2025-12-16 04:29:28

The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter. The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting termination letters to the 60 nonprofit groups and state agencies that received the grants under the “Solar for All” program, with the goal of sending the letters by the end of this week, according to the two people, who spoke on the co

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Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-16 04:24:19

Cognition, the AI coding startup that acquired rival company Windsurf three weeks ago, laid off 30 employees last week and is offering buyouts to the roughly 200 remaining employees on the team, reports The Information. This is the latest bout of whiplash that Windsurf employees have faced after a tumultuous stretch for the company. The startup was initially almost acquired by OpenAI, then lost its CEO, co-founder, and research leads to Google in a $2.4 billion deal known as a reverse-acquihire

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Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino takes helm at digital health company eMed

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-16 09:16:38

Linda Yaccarino, the former chief executive of Elon Musk's social media platform X, is pivoting into health care. The digital health company eMed Population Health on Tuesday announced it has appointed Yaccarino as its new CEO. EMed is developing a population health management platform for the blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs called GLP-1s, the company said. It had raised a total $22 million as of 2022, according to PitchBook. Yaccarino, who rose rose to the top of NBCUniversal's glo

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If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:18:54

Google's notorious AI Overviews feature appears to have finally gotten it right — but for all the wrong reasons. As flagged on Bluesky, if you ask Google why its own search engine feels so useless lately, the company's AI feature will provide multiple and excoriating reasons — including brutal attacks against itself, Google's much-maligned AI Overviews. In that Bluesky post, Google responded broadly to the hilariously colloquial query of "why is google ass now" with a self-flagellating list of

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Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 12:30:49

No feedback, no one to bounce ideas off, no “nice job” at the end of the day. The freedom is great, but it gets weirdly quiet. Anyone else relate?

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Tesla co-founder JB Straubel is using old EV batteries to power AI data centers

cnbc.com Andrew Evers 2025-12-16 14:00:01

As demand for energy skyrockets amid the rise of AI, one of Tesla 's co-founders is betting on a new solution: giving old electric vehicle batteries a second-life. JB Straubel, who helped launch Tesla and served as its tech chief until 2019, founded Redwood Materials in 2017 to recycle batteries and build a closed-loop supply chain for EVs. But as Redwood started receiving more EV batteries, the startup noticed that most still had usable capacity. Rather than recycle those batteries, Redwood is

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Motorola Razr 2025 gets a Swarovski treatment but without the sticker shock

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 14:00:34

Motorola TL;DR Motorola has announced a new special edition of the Razr 50 studded with Swarovski crystals. The crystal-laden flip phone is paired with a new color of the Moto Buds Loop earbuds, also studded with Swarovskis. The “Brilliant Collection” will be available in the US later this week for $999.99. Motorola is no stranger to the glitz of the fashion world. From its partnership with Paris Hilton for a hot pink edition of the Motorola Razr 2024 to the classic gold-plated Moto Razr V3i

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Get a new MacBook or iPad every 2 years with this subscription

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-12-16 14:42:14

Most Apple users stick with their machines longer than they would like to. Not because they love the slowdowns… but because upgrading is expensive, and reselling takes time most people don’t have. That’s where Upgraded comes in. Upgraded is a tech upgrade program built for Apple lovers. You pay monthly, starting at $33.28/mo for MacBooks and $31.89/mo for iPad Pros, and have the option to upgrade every 2 years to the latest model. It’s simple, clear, and is blowing up in popularity with Appl

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US adds OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to list of approved AI vendors for federal agencies

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-16 14:43:12

In Brief The U.S. government has added Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic to a list of approved vendors that can offer artificial intelligence services to civilian federal agencies, Bloomberg reports. The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Awards Schedule (MSA), which would let government agencies access AI tool vendors with pre-negotiated contracts, rather than negotiating with vendors individually. Bloomberg reports that the General Ser

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Intel credit rating drops to two steps above junk status amid worsening struggles

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-17 05:15:00

What just happened? Intel is learning that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse. The beleaguered company has just had its credit rating downgraded by Fitch, placing Team Blue just two places above the dreaded junk credit status. Fitch carried out an assessment on Intel that found the company was facing increasing challenges in maintaining demand for its products. It also noted the growing competition from the likes of NXP Semiconductors, Broadcom, Qualcomm, and AMD, many of w

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The best earbuds of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-17 03:30:14

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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A Rather Grave Reminder: When to Watch 'Wednesday' Season 2 This Week

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 04:00:12

When it premiered in 2022, Wednesday broke viewership records for Netflix. Now, after what feels like an eternity of finger-tapping and deadpan looks into the void, season 2 is nearly here. So, basically, Goth summer is upon us. Creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough previously teased that season 2 will be darker in tone. This new run of episodes "definitely has some moments which are more straightforward horror," Millar told EW. Praise be. Jenna Ortega is back as the titular hero. Joining he

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Got a new PC? 5 apps to install first (and how they'll improve your workflow)

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-17 06:15:12

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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People are using ChatGPT to write their text messages - here's how you can tell

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-12-17 06:00:14

Kirill Stytsenko/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways People are using AI to write sensitive messages to loved ones. Detecting AI-generated text is becoming more difficult as chatbots evolve. Some tech leaders have promoted this use of AI in their marketing strategies. Everyone loves receiving a handwritten letter, but those take time, patience, effort, and sometimes multiple drafts to compose. Most of us at one time or another have given a Hallmark card to a loved one or friend. Not because

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Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 05:43:40

> Your organization “xxx” has $xxx Anthropic API credits that will expire on September 03, 2025 UTC. > > To ensure uninterrupted service, we recommend enabling auto-reload for your organization. When enabled, we’ll automatically add credits when your balance reaches a specified minimum. You can enable auto-reload in the Anthropic Console.

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