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Samsung outlines several built-in options for Galaxy users to extend battery life, including keeping software updated, placing rarely used apps into deep sleep via Settings > Battery > Background usage limits, and enabling Power savings to restrict background data use. The guidance also highlights Battery protection, which lets users cap charging between 80 and 95 percent instead of always charging to full.
Dr. Martin, a teacher, recounts being physically assaulted by a high-school emotional support student, an attack that led to surgeries and a long recovery. She writes that when she shared her story, people responded with sympathy but little surprise, which she says reflects how commonplace violence against teachers has become.
Instinct, maker of a viral AI assistant that performs tasks like booking travel and making calls on users' behalf, has raised $1 billion in a Series C round led by investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue. The round values the company at $10 billion, just a month after a prior raise valued it at $2.5 billion, and comes roughly a year after its invite-only launch in August 2026.
A data analysis by blogger Peter Vijeh examined comments across six Reddit knife subreddits using a fine-tuned named-entity recognition model to track brand mentions. He found that for one chef's-knife brand, 31% of its mentions in 'what should I buy' threads came from just 5% of accounts, a rate four times higher than random chance would predict, prompting him to review those accounts' full posting histories.
An open-source GitHub project called DLSS-NR-on-AMD is reimplementing Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering runtime to work on AMD Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000 series cards, currently supporting DirectX 12 titles that use FSR, including Cyberpunk 2077 and GTA V Enhanced. Early builds saw frame rates collapse from over 80 FPS to around 11-12 FPS on a Radeon RX 9070 XT, but successive alpha releases have delivered roughly 74% combined performance gains within 24 hours, and a new AMDNR launcher now automates installation.
Apple's iOS 27 introduces several updates to the Notes app, including the ability to insert divider lines for organizing content and create section links that act as a table of contents within longer notes. The update also lets users create or add to notes using the new Siri AI, including reformatting content pulled from Siri's answers, building on Markdown copy-paste support introduced in iOS 26.
ASRock's X870E Challenger Wifi White is a $230 AM5 motherboard offering USB4 ports, Wi-Fi 7 with 160MHz support, 5 GbE networking, four M.2 slots (one PCIe 5.0), two SATA ports and a 23-phase VRM. Tom's Hardware testing found average-to-below-average benchmark performance, partly because its primary DDR5-6000 RAM kit wasn't officially supported and required a secondary kit for testing.
SpaceX's Starship rocket achieved Earth orbit for the first time in a launch from South Texas, despite losing one of six Raptor engines on its upper stage shortly after separation. The company briefly called off the mission before resuming, and the Ship stage went on to deploy all 26 planned third-generation Starlink satellites. SpaceX is still deciding whether to complete a full set of orbits or bring the upper stage down early, while the Super Heavy booster successfully returned to the launch site.
A cost comparison examines whether leasing a new iPhone annually or buying and trading it in is cheaper for people who upgrade every year. Using Apple's current trade-in offers as a proxy for next year's values, buying and trading an iPhone 18 Pro would cost about $414 net versus $600 for a 12-month lease, saving roughly $186. The analysis also lists the trade-in value each model would need to hit for buying to beat leasing, based on today's Apple trade-in rates.
Google has rolled out a new setting in its Recorder app for Pixel devices called 'Allow recordings in other apps,' which is enabled by default. With it on, audio recordings now appear directly in a Recordings folder accessible through any file manager, rather than being sandboxed within the app.
Google has confirmed it is sunsetting Gemini Gems, with migration to its newer Skills feature beginning November 17. Existing Gems will remain usable until they're converted, and users will retain their customizations in the form of Skills afterward. A banner in the Gems manager announced the change, though Google's linked support page explaining details isn't yet live.
According to The Information, Tesla has been struggling for over a year to build reliable, durable hands for its Optimus humanoid robot, prompting engineers to develop a swappable 'sensing glove' instead of embedded touch sensors. Most Optimus units built so far are used for internal testing rather than sold to customers, and remain limited to simple repetitive tasks despite extensive training data.