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Labor Day sales include a four-pack of Apple AirTags for $70

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-02 04:30:35

If you're thinking about getting some of Apple's AirTags, now's the time to act — Amazon currently has a four-pack on sale for $70. That's one of the lowest prices we've seen outside the big sales on Black Friday and Prime Day. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow your search between a couch and love seat in the same room. Over larger distances,

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How to Slow Down a Program? and Why It Can Be Useful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 03:38:35

Most research on programming language performance asks a variation of a single question: how can we make some specific program faster? Sometimes we may even investigate how we can use less memory. This means a lot of research focuses solely on reducing the amount of resources needed to achieve some computational goal. So, why on earth might we be interested in slowing down programs then? Slowing Down Programs is Surprisingly Useful! Making programs slower can be useful to find race conditions

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4 apps you should use instead of Google Tasks

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 12:00:00

Andy Walker / Android Authority Google Tasks is, without a doubt, one of the company’s worst apps. While its barebones nature might appeal to some, its lack of basic features — like natural language processing — makes it feel well behind the times compared to its rivals. Personally, I’m not a fan. I’ve tried countless competing apps in my quest for a better solution, and found four that stand out from the crowd. The first is my personal favorite and the one I’ve been using for years, but the o

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Google Play Store preps a small but welcome UI change (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 14:18:22

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Store is preparing a redesigned account switcher. A prominent “Switch account” row appears below a greeting and your profile picture. The feature is enabled by flags in v46.8.29-31, mirroring recent rollouts in other Google apps. Update, August 27, 2025 (06:18 AM ET): The redesigned account switcher on the Google Play Store has started rolling out to some users, as reported by X user Joe Lenington. Original article, June 30 10, 2025 (11:5

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More great wallpaper in the run-up to two more Apple Stores in India

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-02 15:01:37

Apple is doubling its retail footprint in India with the imminent opening of two new stores next week, one in Bengaluru and the other in Pune. As usual, the company is offering downloadable wallpaper to celebrate the openings, this one with a peacock theme … The long road to Apple stores in India Apple had wanted to open retail stores in India for a great many years before it was finally able to do so. In a bid to boost the manufacturing sector in the country, the Indian government banned an

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We compared the best tablets by Apple, Samsung, and others in our lab - here's the battery champ

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-11-02 11:00:21

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When looking to buy a tablet, there are a few factors to keep in mind, such as what you'll be using the tablet for (entertainment, drawing, work, etc.), your price point, display size, operating system, and more. At ZDNET, we considered all of these factors when choosing the best tablets you can buy, but we were able to test one important factor that can truly make or break your tablet experience: battery life. Also:

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This Visiting Interstellar Comet Just Keeps Getting Weirder

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-02 12:00:32

Ever since interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS whizzed into our cosmic neighborhood in July, astronomers have been racing to uncover its characteristics. Now that the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has taken a good look at this icy interloper, it seems to be weirder than anyone imagined. A preprint submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters for peer review on Monday, August 25, describes the first results from JWST’s survey of 3I/ATLAS. A team of astronomers observed the comet with the telesc

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This Hidden iPhone Feature Could Help Protect Your Eyes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 14:33:03

According to my iPhone, I spend about four hours a day looking at my phone. I'm sure I hold my iPhone close to my face at times, especially at night, and that might be why my eyes hurt sometimes, like I've got something in them. Luckily, there's a hidden iPhone feature called Screen Distance that could help all of us take better care of our eyes. CNET The feature warns you when you're holding your iPhone or iPad too close to your face, sort of like having a parent tell you to sit farther back

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SpaceX's Starship deploys its payload for the first time

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-02 11:50:30

SpaceX has successfully launched the Starship for its 10th test flight after it was delayed a couple of times due to weather conditions and other issues. This time, the company was able to achieve its objectives without the vehicle and its booster exploding mid-test. One of those objectives was deploying Starship's payload for the first time ever. If you'll recall, Starship exploded during its ascent stage in the company's seventh and eighth test flights. The vehicle made it to space for its nin

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Show HN: Regolith – Regex library that prevents ReDoS CVEs in TypeScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 10:54:07

Regolith A server-side TypeScript and JavaScript library immune to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks by using Rust and linear Regex under the hood. Regolith has a linear worst case time complexity, compared to the default RegExp found in TypeScript and JavaScript, which has an exponential worst case. Motivation: I wanted a Regex library for TypeScript and JavaScript where I didn't have to worry about ReDoS attacks. Important Regolith is still early in development! We need h

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Starship Nails 10th Test Flight, Putting SpaceX Back on Track

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-11-02 08:44:37

Following a string of unsuccessful flights, SpaceX managed to pull off its most successful test in months, with Starship fulfilling a number of key milestones. It was a good day for SpaceX. The megarocket blasted off on time, leaving the Starbase launch mount at 7:30 p.m. ET. Stage separation went off without a hitch, with the Super Heavy booster landing in the ocean as planned nearly 7 minutes into the mission. Second engine cutoff (SECO) occurred a few minutes later, and Starship began to cru

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Taylor Swift Is Engaged. Her Post Smashed an Instagram Record

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 08:26:00

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. The post broke Instagram's record for reposts, even though, to be fair, reposting just started on Instagram in August. Still, the post hit 1 million reposts in less than 6 hours and earned 14 million likes in just the first hour. By Tuesday evening, it had topped 21.2 million likes. "Your E

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 27 #542

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

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle isn't too tough, though there are a whopping seven answers to find in the grid. They're all pretty simple words to unscramble though, and the theme is an easy one. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Aug. 27

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 11:36:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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SpaceX notches major wins during 10th Starship test

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-02 09:25:37

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off on its 10th test flight Tuesday evening, hitting two long-sought milestones and putting an end to a string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle lifted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city, at 7:30 p.m. ET after two scrubs earlier this week. The rocket ascended on 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines before separating around three minutes after liftoff. On descent, the Super Heavy booster tested out a new maneuver: inten

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The 39 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Angela Watercutter 2025-11-02 02:00:00

Slowly but surely, Apple TV+ found its footing. The streaming service, which at launch we called “odd, angsty, and horny as hell,” has evolved into a diverse library of dramas, documentaries, and comedies. Now its library is so packed that we’ve declared it “the new HBO.” Curious but don’t know where to get started? Below are our picks for the best shows on the service. (Also, here are our picks for the best movies on Apple TV+.) When you’re done, head over to our guides to the best shows on Ne

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SpaceX notches major wins during tenth Starship test

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-02 09:25:37

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket lifted off on its tenth test flight Tuesday evening, hitting two long sought milestones and putting an end to a string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle lifted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city, at 7:30 pm ET after two scrubs earlier in this week. The rocket ascended on 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines before separating around three minutes after liftoff. On descent, the Super Heavy booster tested out a new maneuver: int

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Das Problem mit German Strings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 09:59:35

German strings are everywhere I look. The impression I’ve gotten from working in the Rust Arrow/Datafusion ecosystem and related file formats for the last couple of months is that StringViews (the implementation of German strings in Arrow) are becoming, if they have not already, the canonical form of representing string columns at execution time. This is generally a good idea. German strings are a fantastic innovation rooted in simplicity that greatly improves most string processing use-cases i

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The "Wow!" signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful

news.ycombinator.com James Felton 2025-11-02 11:25:06

A new study has re-examined the famous "Wow!" signal, finding that it likely has an extraterrestrial origin after all, and may have been even more intense than previously believed. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. On August 15, 1977, at the Big Ear radio telescope observatory at Ohio State University, a narrowband radio signal was received. A few days later, astronomer Jerry Ehman reviewed the data and noticed the signal sequ

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OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-02 11:08:38

OpenAI published a blog post on Tuesday titled "Helping people when they need it most" that addresses how its ChatGPT AI assistant handles mental health crises, following what the company calls "recent heartbreaking cases of people using ChatGPT in the midst of acute crises." The post arrives after The New York Times reported on a lawsuit filed by Matt and Maria Raine, whose 16-year-old son Adam died by suicide in April after extensive interactions with ChatGPT, which Ars covered extensively in

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Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-02 12:32:17

Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday and made it into president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, forcing a temporary lockdown. The “No Azure for Apartheid” group reportedly live-streamed their sit-in on Twitch, hoisting banners, chanting ‘Brad Smith, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!’ and posting a mock legal summons charging Smith with “crimes against humanity.” TechCrunch has reached out to Microsoft for more information. According to The Verge, the prot

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Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-02 17:22:13

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 has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that allows its Claude AI assistant to take control of users’ web browsers, marking the company’s entry into an increasingly crowded and potentially risky arena where artificial intelligence systems can directly manipulate computer interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI company announc

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SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 02:07:38

spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP spaCy is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython. It's built on the very latest research, and was designed from day one to be used in real products. spaCy comes with pretrained pipelines and currently supports tokenization and training for 70+ languages. It features state-of-the-art speed and neural network models for tagging, parsing, named entity recognition, text classification and more, multi-task learning with pretrained trans

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The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don’t Know Why Either)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-02 17:20:38

Remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin’s price soared and companies started promising to add everything to the blockchain? It was an embarrassing era, since blockchain technology has very few practical purposes that can’t be solved by a regular, old-school database. But it sounds like the White House just got the memo and wants to usher in the world of 2017 again. President Donald Trump held a televised “cabinet meeting ” at the White House on Tuesday that clocked in at over 3 hours and 15 minutes.

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SpaceX Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified to Launch Starship After Long String of Super Expensive Explosions

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-02 21:46:44

For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been stridently glib when his rockets explode during tests, quipping that the blasts were "just a scratch," a "minor setback," or a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." He's still deploying these jokey ripostes, but there's reason to believe the walls may be starting to close in for SpaceX's efforts on Starship, as more and more of the ultra-expensive spacecraft fail in spectacular public view. The issue is that he's bet the future of the company on the massive

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Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 22:23:48

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Strings in the latest Gmail update hint at some new Google Chat features in testing. Notification summaries in Gmail might work independently of Android 16’s system-wide version, bringing the feature to more devices. Gmail may also offer auto-generated conversation summaries and finally notify you when someone reacts to your Chat messages. Little by little, Gmail is slowly turning into more of a one-stop hub than an inbox. Google has been weaving Chat i

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9to5Mac Daily: August 26, 2025 – Apple vs Elon Musk, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-11-02 22:50:35

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 BMX: Check out BMX’s SolidSafe™ power bank, built with cutting-edge solid-state battery technology that eliminates flammable liquid lithium for a safer, more durable charging experience. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe

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1.1M insurance customers were exposed in a data breach - here's what to know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-02 22:48:43

JuSun/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Farmers Insurance suffered a major data breach. More than 1 million customers were affected. Affected customers are receiving free credit monitoring. If you're a Farmers Insurance customer, you're going to want to pay attention -- and probably keep an eye on all of your important accounts. According to a notice on the Farmers website, about 1.1 million customers had sensi

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"Special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 18:57:22

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20 Kitchen Tools and Gadgets Chefs Swear You'll Regret Buying

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 21:30:00

Walk through any home store or scroll a kitchen gadget section online and it's easy to feel tempted. You might see a spiralizer that promises to replace pasta, a countertop machine that claims to chop, dice and sauté, or a ton of other "miracle" products. These might sound like they'll make cooking easier. The reality is that many of them are used once or twice before being shoved to the back of a cabinet. A handful of dependable tools will carry you much farther than a drawer full of gimmicks

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Labor Day sales include a four-pack of Apple AirTags for $70

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