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Testing a smart cooler proved I can never go back to toting ice (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-04-13 19:00:20

ZDNET's key takeaways The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is available for $1,349 but currently on sale. This cooler works as a portable mini-fridge, with dual-zone cooling and the capacity to freeze or refrigerate. The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is bulky and heavy, and it only comes with one battery so you have to purchase the second to reach the full 3.2 day capacity. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 58L electric cooler is typically $1,349, but it

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Texting myself the weather every day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-10 23:33:38

Texting myself the weather every day Opening the Weather app every morning is too much effort, but you know what isn’t? Writing a recurring job to query an API every morning and send you the results in an SMS, delivered right to your doorstep phone! Come with me as we embark on my short, little journey through this very process. Version 1: A Zapier “Zap” Version 1 of this service was simply just a “zap” on Zapier. Very easy to connect together a trigger and an action, and start receiving a te

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Getting Beaten by Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy Set Designer Was a Wild Ride

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-13 19:00:13

In an air-conditioned tent on a sweltering Los Angeles day at Summer Game Fest, I sat down to play a hand of the card game Magic: The Gathering and drew a handful of characters from Final Fantasy. Sitting across from me was the man who oversaw the process of turning some of the world's most beloved video game characters into playable cards for what's shaping up to be Magic's most popular set ever -- already a best seller a month before its release. Magic: The Gathering is a storied collectible

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All the Kookiest Things to Remember About ‘Wednesday’ Before Season 2

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-04-14 10:15:46

Happy Friday the 13th, you Wednesday fandom kooks. The Jenna Ortega-starring Addams Family spin-off series from Tim Burton follows the Addams’ eldest as she attends a boarding school filled with other supernaturally inclined youths in a sprawling mystery that has only begun. Wednesday returns to Netflix in less than two months, so we’re taking this spooky occasion to pull out our Nevermore notes before school gets back in session. Here’s what you need to remember—besides Wednesday having a Frid

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Wing and Walmart are bringing drone delivery to 100 new stores

news.ycombinator.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-04-14 15:46:02

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. Wing, the drone company owned by Alphabet, and Walmart are expanding their delivery partnership to five new cities in the US, the companies announced today. Customers who shop at Walmart stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa will soon have the ability to request a drone deliver their online shopping orde

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Google’s latest experiment brings NotebookLM’s best features to Search

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-14 18:33:14

TL;DR Audio Overviews emerged as one of Google’s breakout AI hits, synthesizing virtual podcasts with a pair of hosts. After debuting with NotebookLM and spreading to other Google services, the company is experimenting with Audio Overviews in Search. For this initial test, access is limited to the US and only supports English. Forgive us for sounding like a broken record by this point, but Google’s Audio Overviews have easily emerged as one of the company’s most genuinely impressive and usefu

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The Internet Archive modernizes its GeoCities GIF search engine

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-14 18:23:15

The Internet Archive made it easier to search for '90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities webpages, which (mostly) bit the dust in 2009. The new version of GifCities is much easier to search. You can now search semantically, based on the animation's content. In other words, it's much more likely to bring up the topic or scene you're looking for by describing it. In GifCities' old version,

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Google can now generate a fake AI podcast of your search results

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-14 18:19:55

NotebookLM is undoubtedly one of Google's best implementations of generative AI technology, giving you the ability to explore documents and notes with a Gemini AI model. Last year, Google added the ability to generate so-called "audio overviews" of your source material in NotebookLM. Now, Google has brought those fake AI podcasts to search results as a test. Instead of clicking links or reading the AI Overview, you can have two nonexistent people tell you what the results say. This feature is n

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Trump’s FTC may impose merger condition that forbids advertising boycotts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-14 22:11:56

FTC chair alleged “serious risk” from ad boycotts After Musk's purchase of Twitter, the social network lost advertisers for various reasons, including changes to content moderation and an incident in which Musk posted a favorable response to an antisemitic tweet and then told concerned advertisers to "go fuck yourself." FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said at a conference in April that "the risk of an advertiser boycott is a pretty serious risk to the free exchange of ideas." "If advertisers get

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Google tests Audio Overviews for Search queries

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-04-14 22:01:33

Google Search is experimenting with Audio Overviews for certain Search queries, the company announced on Friday. The feature was first introduced to NotebookLM, Google’s AI-based note-taking and research assistant. The tech giant says Audio Overviews will use its latest Gemini models to give users another way to absorb and understand information. “An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient, hands-free way to absorb information whether you’re multitasking or sim

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How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in web searches

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-15 02:00:09

Save some time (and energy and water) and Google without the “help” of AI. Google’s AI Overviews do not save me time. For one, I work for a tech blog and am therefore professionally curious as to whether or not the generated answers are correct, so I spend a few ticks figuring that out. (Answer: Sometimes, but not always!) Then things get existential as I contemplate how long a self-cannibalizing system can sustain itself — if the AI gives answers pulled from websites that survive on visits fr

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Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-04-15 02:42:48

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. Google is rolling out a test that puts its AI-powered Audio Overviews on the first page of search results on mobile. The experiment, which you can enable in Labs, will let you generate an AI podcast-style discussion for certain queries. If you search for something like, “How do noise cancellation headphones work?”, Google will display a button bene

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The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Nicolás Hatcher 2026-04-15 11:14:20

The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers Introduction In this blog post you are going to read about two things: A new flashy discovery in mathematics: aperiodic tilings of the plane with a single monotile SAT solvers. A family of not so well known algorithms in computer science Hopefully by the end of the post you will know a fair amount about the hat, the turtle and the spectres and have another powerful tool under your belt, SAT solvers. Thus, you can see this post either as an exercise in r

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Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-15 13:51:22

QRKey qrkey is a command-line tool for generating and recovering QR codes from files for offline private key backup. It allows you to convert files into QR codes that can be printed or stored, and later recovered from those QR codes. It supports large files by splitting them into multiple QR codes, and includes metadata for easy recovery and validation. Convert a file into a PDF with QR codes Recover from a PDF with QR codes with a barcode scanner Recover from a PDF with QR codes from a file

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Red team AI now to build safer, smarter models tomorrow

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2026-04-15 18:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Editor’s note: Louis will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform this month. Register today. AI models are under siege. With 77% of enterprises already hit by adversarial model attacks and 41% of those attacks exploiting prompt injections and data poisoning, attackers’ tradecraft is outpacing existing cyber defenses.

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What Is Cellular Internet And Is It A Reliable Broadband Connection?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-15 17:00:00

The latest report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index highlights that for the first time ever, a non-fiber internet provider, T-Mobile 5G Home Internet, matched in score with AT&T Fiber. In other words, customers are just as happy with a cellular internet service over a wired one through fiber. Cellular internet doesn't deliver fast speeds in comparison to fiber. However, it could still be a lifeline for disconnected communities in rural areas. According to the latest Pew Research Cent

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If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-16 04:40:05

Sun Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto (we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Here comes our first planet... As it turns out, things are pretty far apart. We’ll be coming up on a new planet soon. Sit tight. Most of space is just space. Halfway home. Destination: Mars! It would take about seven months to travel this di

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Google Cloud outages: Spotify, Discord, Snapchat and more were down for hours

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-16 10:23:35

Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users. In an update at 4:16PM ET, Google said, "We have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations. Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1. Google Cloud produ

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Google completely remade its Snapseed iOS photo editor

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-16 14:20:03

After several years, Google has released a major update to the iOS version of its Snapseed photo editor. Version 3.0 is the program offers a complete redesign of both the iPhone and iPad apps. All of the images that have been edited with the tool are displayed in a grid. Navigation has been rearranged into three tabs, with a new Faves section for the photo tools that you want to quickly use on the regular. It boasts more than 25 different tools and filters for altering photos, including some new

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Google Cloud outages: Spotify, Discord, Snapchat and more partially down

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-16 22:30:12

Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 11AM PT/2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users. In an update at 4:16PM ET, Google said, "We have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations. Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1. Google Clo

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How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever

wired.com Steven Levy 2026-04-16 12:00:00

In early June 2005, Steve Jobs emailed his friend Michael Hawley a draft of a speech he had agreed to deliver to Stanford University’s graduating class in a few days. “It’s embarrassing,” he wrote. “I'm just not good at this sort of speech. I never do it. I'll send you something, but please don't puke.” The notes that he sent contained the bones of what would become one of the most famous commencement addresses of all time. It has been viewed over 120 million times and is quoted to this day. Pr

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All the Android features Apple announced at WWDC

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2026-04-17 03:00:00

is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Apple announcing Android features years after Google shipped them is a tale as old as time, but that doesn’t make it any less fun to point out whenever it happens. This year’s WWDC felt especially Android-y — not helped by Siri essentially sitting this year’s announcements out while Apple put its new Liquid Glass design language

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The best note-taking apps for collecting your thoughts and data

theverge.com Barbara Krasnoff 2026-04-17 03:46:15

is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. She can be found on Threads as @barbarask. These days, we are all dealing with huge amounts of information, from meeting notes to social media, to photos and videos, to whatever else we’ve collected — and we are all trying to find some way to store it, organize it, and find it when we need it. If you want to get really basi

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Electric Cooler vs. Ice Cooler: I Went Camping With Both to See Which Is Better

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-17 05:57:00

I've observed that the electrification of any product brings with it a higher price for interested buyers. Case in point, everything from cars to bikes to coolers, once electrified, costs a lot more than their legacy counterparts. With that said, the benefits of a tool powered by electricity can't be understated. With that said, if you're planning camping trips this summer and need a new cooler, I've set out to test a "regular" icebox-style cooler against Anker's new Solix EverFrost 2 to see ho

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US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists

news.ycombinator.com Kinetz Is A Global Investigative Journalist For The Associated Press 2026-04-17 14:12:45

ROME (AP) — Spyware from a U.S.-backed Israeli company was used to target the phones of at least three prominent journalists in Europe, two of whom are editors at an investigative news site in Italy, according to digital researchers at Citizen Lab, citing new forensic evidence of the attacks. The findings come amid a growing questions about what role the government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni may have played in spying on journalists and civil society activists critical of her leade

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Proton VPN review 2025: A nonprofit service with premium performance

engadget.com Unknown 2026-04-17 18:55:34

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Proton VPN stands out for two main reasons: it's one of the only virtual private networks (VPNs) to include a free plan with no data limits, and it's one of the few services majority-owned by a nonprofit. It's the best VPN in both of those categories, and it makes a strong case for bei

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Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-04-17 20:13:32

Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save Watch: Sir Elton John speaks to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK's most high-profile artists - and their backers in the House of Lords - has finally been passed. Peers wanted an amendment to the drably-titled Data (Use and Access) Bill which would have forced tech companies to declare their use

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How brands can pursue the $11B in-game ad opportunity | Orange 142

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-04-17 21:00:00

In-game advertising is an $11 billion market, and Orange 142 has released a guide to help marketers unlock the opportunity. Orange 142 released a new best practices guide focused on in-game advertising. The guide is designed to help marketers unlock the full potential of gaming as a marketing channel, connecting with audiences in immersive environments without disrupting the player experience. Gaming platforms are one of the most engaged digital channels globally, with more than 3.2 billion pe

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Computing’s Top 30: Harini Hapuarachichi

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-04-18 02:00:22

In medieval Europe, kings wore diamonds to absorb the gemstone’s purported powers of strength and invincibility. Today, researchers are seeking to harness those same storied powers to fuel quantum computing’s next leap. Among those researchers: Harini Hapuarachichi, a computational physicist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)—and one of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024. In the following Q&A, Hapuarachichi discusses her g

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Anzu advances in-game ad offerings with Amex Ventures investment

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2026-04-18 02:00:00

Advertising solutions company Anzu announced today that it has received a new investment from Amex Ventures. The undisclosed amount will accelerate Anzu’s mission to provide intrinsic in-game advertising to premium companies. Amex Ventures joins Anzu’s existing investors, a list that includes PayPal Ventures, WPP, Emmis Corporation, and NBCUniversal, among others. According to Anzu, this investment will help to build out its solutions, scaling intrinsic ads in games while also providing measur

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Testing a smart cooler proved I can never go back to toting ice (and it's on sale)

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Getting Beaten by Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy Set Designer Was a Wild Ride

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