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Your next Pixel update could make it easier to check your Now Playing history (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-23 03:57:04

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google has been testing several changes to the Pixel’s Now Playing feature. With the latest Android Canary build, we managed to activate a dedicated app drawer icon for the Now Playing feature. The app icon takes users to the Now Playing history page within the Android System Intelligence app. We’ve recently spotted Google working on several changes related to the Now Playing functionality available on Pixel devices. Users will soon be able to add a Now

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 review: More screen, more battery but something's missing

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-23 03:00:22

Samsung’s annual foldable refresh includes a trio of devices this year. While the Z Fold 7 comes with a top-tier processor and cameras, the Z Flip 7 carries over many technical details from its predecessor. In fact, the most significant upgrade this year is a more expansive front display, or Flex Window, as the company prefers to call it. Samsung has also, somehow, added an even bigger battery to a slimmer foldable, which is technically impressive. However, the company made minimal software add

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Trump's AI plan says a lot about open source - but here's what it leaves out

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-23 03:49:42

traffic_analyzer / Getty Images As expected, President Donald Trump's administration recently unveiled Winning the Race: AI Action Plan went all in on liberating AI companies to do what they want to make sure "that the United States and its allies win the [AI] race." Also: Trump's AI plan pushes AI upskilling instead of worker protections - and 4 other key takeaways What about safety and responsibility? Not so much. The contradiction... The AI Action Plan states it is "a national security i

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Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-08-23 03:35:40

President Donald Trump’s plan to promote America’s AI dominance involves discouraging “woke AI,” slashing state and federal regulations, and laying the groundwork to rapidly expand AI development and adoption. Trump’s proposal, released on July 23rd, is a sweeping endorsement of the technology, full of guidance that ranges from specific executive actions to directions for future research. Some of the new plan’s provisions (like promoting open-source AI) have garnered praise from organizations t

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Elden Ring Nightreign is adding two-player co-op

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-23 03:51:23

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. Elden Ring Nightreign is finally getting a two-player mode. FromSoftware announced on Friday that it’s adding “Duo Expeditions” in a patch coming on July 30th, allowing you to take on enemies across Limveld with one other friend. Since Elden Ring Nightreign’s launch in May, the title has only let you play by yourself or in a group of three. Elden R

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Cricket revamps its lineup and unlike some competitors, its an improvement

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-23 07:30:42

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Cricket Wireless has refreshed its plan lineup with four new options starting at $30 a month, featuring lower pricing and a few other tweaks. Taxes and fees remain included in Cricket’s advertised prices, unlike some competitors. Overall, these plans appear to be an improvement, assuming network priority and other factors remain the same. This has been a big year for prepaid shakeups, with several brands refreshing their lineups, including Metro by T

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T-Mobile is crushing AT&T and Verizon, and these plans are the secret sauce

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-23 22:45:12

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile added 830,000 new postpaid subscribers in the second quarter of this year. The company’s consumer group president has revealed that over 60% of the new additions opt for two of its newest plans. In comparison, AT&T added 401,000 postpaid subscribers while Verizon lost 51,000 postpaid subscribers. T-Mobile added more postpaid subscribers than any other carrier in the last quarter, and according to the company, two specific plans are driving a

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Trump's AI plan pushes AI upskilling instead of worker protections - and 4 other key takeaways

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-08-23 21:30:16

Douglas Rissing/Getty The Trump administration published its AI Action Plan, a 28-page document outlining proposed policies for everything from data center construction to how government agencies will use AI, Wednesday. As expected, the plan emphasizes deregulation, speed, and global dominance while largely avoiding many of the conflicts plaguing the AI space, including debates over copyright, environmental protections, and safety testing requirements. Also: How the Trump administration change

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Superfunctions: A universal solution against sync/async fragmentation in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 21:39:48

This library is designed to solve one of the most important problems in python programming - dividing all written code into 2 camps: sync and async. We get rid of code duplication by using templates. Table of contents Quick start Install it: pip install transfunctions And use: from asyncio import run from transfunctions import ( transfunction , sync_context , async_context , generator_context , ) @ transfunction def template (): print ( 'so, ' , end = '' ) with sync_context : print ( "it's

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Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-24 19:01:49

Most people, after suffering consequences for a bad decision, will alter their future behavior to avoid a similar negative outcome. That's just common sense. But many social circles have that one friend who never seems to learn from those consequences, repeatedly self-sabotaging themselves with the same bad decisions. When it comes to especially destructive behaviors, like addictions, the consequences can be severe or downright tragic. Why do they do this? Researchers at the University of New S

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No, of Course You Can’t Actually Play the New Lego Game Boy

wired.com Verity Burns 2025-08-24 20:31:18

Back in January, as the world awaited news on the Switch 2, Lego jumped in and teased a collaboration with Nintendo that would bring the classic Game Boy console back to life in brick form. Now it’s here—and it looks even better than we expected. But the promo video for launch has caused a fair bit of confusion as to whether you can actually play it. The video is a remake of part of the original Game Boy commercial from 1989. As the included brick-built game cartridges are placed into the GameP

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Samsung killed its classic DeX mode in One UI 8, but there’s a good reason

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-25 03:42:55

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung killed its “classic” DeX in One UI 8, replacing it with a new version built on top of Google’s native Desktop Mode in Android. This move aligns DeX with Google’s broader effort to improve Android’s desktop capabilities, which should benefit DeX in the long run. However, the new DeX is currently a downgrade for users, as it lacks many quality-of-life features that were present in the classic version. Samsung DeX is one of the best features of O

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Why I recommend this Asus laptop over the MacBook Pro to creators and professionals

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-25 03:49:00

Asus ProArt P16 ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus ProArt P16 is available now, starting at $1,900. It pairs powerful hardware with a suite of customizable options designed for creatives. The deep personalization requires engagement from the user, the huge trackpad won't be everyone's cup of tea, and the ultra-glossy display tends to glare. $1,699.99 at Best Buy Over at Best Buy, the Asus ProArt P16 is on sale for $1,700. Asus' ProArt series consists of sleek laptops with high-end hardware for c

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The Best Co-op Games to Play With Your Friends in Every Scenario

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 02:01:00

Despite how gaming has changed over the years, one thing remains the same -- people love playing games together. Whether you're solving a puzzle, hunting monsters or escaping Hell, it's better with a friend (or three). It should come as no surprise that games like Split Fiction and It Takes Two from Hazelight Studios, which focus on cooperative play, were critical successes. Some of my best memories are marathon gaming sessions with friends, squished together on a couch or logging in online fro

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1Password subscriptions are half off for the back to school season

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-25 07:08:17

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 . That brings the price of the Individual plan down to $18 for a year. 1Password is running a notable back-to-school sale in the middle of July, but the deals more than make up for the chronological discrepancy. Many subscription plans are half off until September 12. This includes the

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No, of Course You Can't Actually Play the New Lego Game Boy

wired.com Verity Burns 2025-08-25 06:31:18

Back in January, as the world awaited news on the Switch 2, Lego jumped in and teased a collaboration with Nintendo that would bring the classic Game Boy console back to life in brick form. Now it’s here—and it looks even better than we expected. But, the promo video for launch has caused a fair bit of confusion as to whether you can actually play it. The video is a remake of part of the original Game Boy commercial from 1989. As the included brick-built game cartridges are placed into the Game

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Here’s your first look at Battlefield 6

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-08-25 07:08:12

The trailer offers a first look at Pax Armata, a Private Military Corporation bankrolled by former NATO states whose agenda threatens to throw the world into global conflict. This sets the scene for what players can expect on the battlefield — both in multiplayer and the return of the series’ single player campaign. In Battlefield 6, the series’ incredible blend of visceral combat, epic warfare, and player freedom returns. Blow through walls and bring down buildings for a tactical advantage or

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White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-25 11:37:05

On Wednesday, the White House released "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan," a 25-page document that outlines the Trump administration's strategy to "maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance" in AI through deregulation, infrastructure investment, and international partnerships. But critics are already taking aim at the plan, saying it's doing Big Tech a big favor. Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Michael J. Kratsios and Special Advisor f

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Covers as a way of learning music and code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 17:20:49

Monday, July 21, 2025 When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it. You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions. You may want to record your music, and need all the skills that come along with it. Music is, mostly, subjective: there's not an objective right or wrong way to do things. And that can make it really hard! Each of these skills is then couched in

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Fire on Virgin Airlines Flight Linked to Power Bank in Passenger’s Bag

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-25 15:15:45

Did a power bank start a fire on a recent Virgin flight? That’s the question investigators are currently trying to answer, as they probe an incident in Australia where a woman’s bag burst into flames. The incident, which involved a flight from Sydney, took place around 9 a.m. on Monday, just as the plane was descending to its destination, the New York Times reports. After the bag burst into flames, the plane’s cabin filled with smoke, according to reports. The plane’s crew managed to put out th

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SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-25 19:12:09

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers since the dawn of the Space Age. The twin spacecraft are part of the NASA-funded TRACERS mission, which will spend at least a year measuring plasma conditions in narrow regions of Earth's magnetic field known as polar cusps. As the name suggests, these regions are located over the poles. They play

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I ditched Google Home years ago, so why are you still using it in 2025?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-26 02:00:37

🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. It wasn’t that long ago that Google Home seemed like the smart home platform to be invested in. Google Assistant had numerous advantages over Amazon Alexa, Google’s smart home hardware was among the best on the market, and unique third-party options from Lenovo and JBL kept things interesting. But fast forward to 2025, and Google

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Trump's AI Action Plan Is Here: 5 Key Takeaways

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 17:00:09

The Trump administration on Wednesday laid out the steps it plans to take to ensure "global AI dominance" for the US, with an AI Action Plan that calls for cutting regulations to speed up the development of artificial intelligence tools and the infrastructure to power them. Critics said the plan is a handout to tech and fossil fuel companies, slashing rules that could protect consumers, prevent pollution and fight climate change. Though the plan itself isn't binding (it includes dozens of poli

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Itch.io follows Steam in removing adult games

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-26 02:41:13

The indie-focused open gaming marketplace Itch.io has abruptly deindexed adult content from its browse and search pages, warning that some games will be permanently removed from the platform. In a blog post on Thursday, Itch.io creator Leaf Corcoran said that the update was due to concerns that the website’s payment processors had “about the nature of certain content” hosted on the platform, following similar scrutiny against Steam. “Our ability to process payments is critical for every creator

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I recommend this Asus laptop to creative pros and office workers alike (and it's $300 off)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-26 05:30:17

Asus ProArt P16 ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus ProArt P16 is available now, starting at $1,900. It pairs powerful hardware with a suite of customizable options designed for creatives. The deep personalization requires engagement from the user, the huge trackpad won't be everyone's cup of tea, and the ultra-glossy display tends to glare. $1,699.99 at Best Buy Over at Best Buy, the Asus ProArt P16 is on sale for $1,700. Asus' ProArt series consists of sleek laptops with high-end hardware for c

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White House plan signals “open-weight first” era—and enterprises need new guardrails

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-26 02:24:14

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 U.S. President Donald Trump signed the AI Action Plan, which outlines a path for the U.S. to lead in the AI race. For enterprises already in the throes of deploying AI systems, the rules represent a clear indication of how this administration intends to treat AI going forward and could signal how providers will approach AI development. Muc

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T-Mobile’s T-Satellite service goes live nationwide: Already used by 2 million people

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-26 05:57:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile has officially launched T-Satellite, a satellite texting service available to all US smartphone users, including AT&T and Verizon customers. The service connects phones directly to over 650 Starlink low-Earth orbit satellites for off-grid messaging and location sharing. Over 2 million people used T-Satellite during its beta phase, helping communicate during hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. T-Mobile’s satellite messaging service, T-Satellit

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The Next Planet Parade Takes Place at the End of August. Here's How to See It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 04:44:36

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets in the sky at the same time. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, only occur about once or twice a year, with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets at once. The next one will feature six of our closest celestial neighbors, and the event starts on Aug. 20. The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars will technically be

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New iPhone Fold leak makes the Galaxy Z Fold 7 cover display seem massive

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-26 15:06:22

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR A new report reinforces previous iPhone Fold leaks about a 5.5-inch cover screen and 7.8-inch inner display. The outer screen would be smaller than the first-gen Pixel Fold’s and a full inch smaller than that of the Galaxy Z Fold 7. The iPhone Fold isn’t expected to launch before the second half of 2026. We’ve been hearing about a foldable iPhone for a long time now, and it increasingly looks like 2026 might finally be the year. But if the latest iPho

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Yet another automaker reaffirms no plans to support Apple’s CarPlay Ultra

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-26 15:52:12

Following a long delay, CarPlay Ultra launched a couple of months ago, delivering the much-anticipated tighter integration between the iPhone and car systems promised during WWDC 2022. And while Apple had originally lined up several automakers to support the new experience, some have since backed away. Now, one holdout is doubling down on its decision to pass on the feature. BMW reaffirms no CarPlay Ultra support In a statement to BMW Blog this week, a BMW AG spokesperson said: “BMW currentl

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Latest Tech News

Your next Pixel update could make it easier to check your Now Playing history (APK teardown)

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 review: More screen, more battery but something's missing

Trump's AI plan says a lot about open source - but here's what it leaves out

Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry

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Cricket revamps its lineup and unlike some competitors, its an improvement

T-Mobile is crushing AT&T and Verizon, and these plans are the secret sauce

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Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

No, of Course You Can’t Actually Play the New Lego Game Boy

Samsung killed its classic DeX mode in One UI 8, but there’s a good reason

Why I recommend this Asus laptop over the MacBook Pro to creators and professionals

The Best Co-op Games to Play With Your Friends in Every Scenario

1Password subscriptions are half off for the back to school season

No, of Course You Can't Actually Play the New Lego Game Boy

Here’s your first look at Battlefield 6

White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

Covers as a way of learning music and code

Fire on Virgin Airlines Flight Linked to Power Bank in Passenger’s Bag

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The Next Planet Parade Takes Place at the End of August. Here's How to See It

New iPhone Fold leak makes the Galaxy Z Fold 7 cover display seem massive

Yet another automaker reaffirms no plans to support Apple’s CarPlay Ultra

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