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5 gaming gadgets and accessories that seriously leveled up my setup (including a twist)

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2026-01-01 09:20:18

'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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Truchet Tiles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 08:53:50

Square tiles used in graphic design In information visualization and graphic design, Truchet tiles are square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric. When placed in a square tiling of the plane, they can form varied patterns, and the orientation of each tile can be used to visualize information associated with the tile's position within the tiling.[1] Truchet tiles were first described in a 1704 memoir by Sébastien Truchet entitled "Mémoire sur les combinaisons", and

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Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 06:34:15

What is Pony?¶ Pony is an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language. If you are looking to jump in and get started with Pony right now, you can try it in your browser using the Pony Playground. Keep reading if you are interested in what makes Pony different and why you should consider using it. If you are interested in the early history of Pony and how it came into existence, you’re in luck: “An Early History of Pony”.

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Here are the eight Apple security layers protecting your data

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-01 11:06:40

9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive information from data brokers across the web, including people search sites. Incogni limits your phone number, address, email, SSN, and more from circulating. Fight back against unwanted data brokers with a 30-day money back guarantee. Apple has a reputation for prioritizing the privacy of its customers, and that commitment begins right at the chip design level.

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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales triple as EssilorLuxottica doubles down on wearables

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-01 16:17:40

EssilorLuxottica, Meta’s partner in the smart glasses market and owner of brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley, just reported stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue, driven in part by rising demand for the Ray-Ban Meta. Here’s the breakdown. In its quarterly results, EssilorLuxottica reported a 7.3% revenue increase, beating a Bloomberg-compiled analyst estimate of 5.9%. It is worth mentioning that at current exchange rates, however, revenue rose by just 3.2%, reflecting the impact of a stronger

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July Mortgage Rate Forecast: The Fed Isn't Rushing to Lower Interest Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 16:12:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET For the past several months, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has sat between 6.5% and 7%. Prospective homebuyers shouldn't hold their breath for that to change anytime soon. On July 30, the Federal Reserve is expected to keep borrowing rates the same at its fifth monetary policy meeting this year. Although the central bank doesn't directly dictate mortgage rates, its policy decisions ind

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Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-01 16:05:48

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. Samsung’s One UI 8 update seems to prevent users from unlocking their device’s bootloader to load custom ROMs, as spotted earlier by SammyGuru. Over the weekend, users on the XDA Developers forum noticed that Samsung appears to have disabled the option on devices in regions outside the US, where the option had already been locked for years. By unlo

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Has 5G lived up to the hype? People are united in this survey.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-01 11:07:20

Eric Zeman / Android Authority 5G phones have been on the market for over five years, and I vividly remember how the entire industry hyped up this tech. From industrial applications and remote surgery to unforeseen advancements and cars that talk to each other, companies breathlessly declared how 5G would change the world. Now that the dust has settled, colleague Rob Triggs conducted a deep dive to find out whether 5G actually lived up to the hype. He also asked readers for their opinion, and

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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 18:05:41

A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that in his entire career he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

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James Cameron Wants to Do an ‘Avatar’ Animated Anthology Movie

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-01 21:15:18

The lush new Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer just dropped today—the movie’s in theaters December 19—but James Cameron is already thinking about what’s next for Pandora. Not just Avatar 4 and beyond; though the films are famously on the cutting edge of motion-capture technology, Cameron would like to dig deeper into their world using a more traditional form of animation. Speaking to Empire Magazine, Cameron revealed he’s had conversations with Disney about further expanding the reach of stories rev

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Scientists Create Prototype of Robot Designed to Cannibalize Parts of Other Robots and Build Them Into Itself

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-02 02:13:41

Should robots be able to cannibalize each other so they can accelerate their evolution, bringing them closer to resembling self-sufficient lifeforms capable of living independently of their human masters? Good news if your answer to that question is "yes": a team of researchers from Columbia University have built a robot that can seek out and merge with other robots to grow bigger, stronger, and adapt its abilities to its environment — perhaps one day enabling entire "robot ecologies" to blosso

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Microsoft trials Copilot Mode in Edge

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-02 02:18:51

Microsoft has debuted a Copilot Mode for its Edge web browser. When enabled, this experimental feature can search across multiple open browser tabs and analyze the information on each page. An example posted on X by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shows Copilot Mode examining several papers published by the company's researchers and assessing if they make any similar points. Today we’re introducing Copilot Mode in Edge, our first step in reinventing the browser for the AI age. My favorite featur

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Man Spends 6 Days in the Hospital After Toothbrushing Session Goes Terribly Wrong

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-02 02:20:45

Here’s another thing to add to the list of highly unlikely but deeply horrifying injuries you could sustain in the safety of your own home. A recent case report detailed a 50-year-old man who fainted while brushing his teeth and ended up hospitalized as a result. Doctors at The University of Tokyo Hospital described the unusual incident earlier this month in BMJ Case Reports. After fainting, the man’s toothbrush scraped the back of his throat severely enough to trap air inside, raising the risk

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-02 02:07:29

Maybe they should change the button to say, "I am a robot"? On Friday, OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent, which can perform multistep tasks for users, proved it can pass through one of the Internet's most common security checkpoints by clicking Cloudflare's anti-bot verification—the same checkbox that's supposed to keep automated programs like itself at bay. ChatGPT Agent is a feature that allows OpenAI's AI assistant to control its own web browser, operating within a sandboxed environment with its o

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‘Rick and Morty’ Exec Producer Dan Harmon Is Already Thinking 2 Seasons Ahead

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-02 06:45:34

Last night brought the season eight finale of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty—a surprisingly poignant (by Rick and Morty standards) look at how Rick and the two Beths have coped with the loss of Diane, Rick’s wife and their mother. As you’d expect, sci-fi weirdness complicates their grief—but the episode, titled “Hot Rick,” brought a sense of closure as well as the suggestion that Rick’s emotional evolution will continue in future seasons. While fans of Rick and Morty have grown used to long wait t

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Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-29 18:25:00

What just happened? President Donald Trump has taken a firm stance on one of the most contentious questions in artificial intelligence: whether companies developing AI should be required to pay for the copyrighted content used to train their systems. Speaking at an AI Summit in Washington, Trump dismissed the idea as unworkable. He argued that requiring AI firms to compensate for every book, article, or piece of media used in training their models would stifle innovation and risk leaving the Uni

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KMPlayer is a powerful media player with broad format support

techspot.com Unknown 2026-01-02 11:48:00

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The new KMPlayer is a player optimized for high-end PCs such as 8K and 60FPS. It is a powerful player that plays all the files such as 4K, 8K, 60FPS, and has greatly improved performance to incre

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This new Wyze lamp socket is the outdoor smart home upgrade I've been waiting for

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-02 11:09:00

'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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I Wanted Maximum Visits at My Bird Feeder. A Wildlife Expert Gave Me These Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 10:22:00

Taking time out of your busy day to sit and listen to the birds might sound hokey, but as a wellness writer and birdwatcher, I can tell you firsthand that it can transform your daily routine. Hanging out with the birds or listening to birdsong has real benefits like lowering stress, easing anxiety and even helping reduce symptoms of depression. It might not seem like much, but it's an easy way to slow down and connect with nature. Until recently, I lived in an apartment in the heart of a city.

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

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-02 16:58:08

Maria Diaz/ZDNET I'm no stranger to refurbished products. While buying refurbished or renewed isn't always my first go-to, I did purchase a refurbished 2019 Apple iMac in 2020 that still gets daily use. Buying refurbished, especially with a warranty, is a great way to save money. It's like buying a used car or secondhand furniture; you may not know the whole history, but whether it's worth the risk depends on the buyer. I swapped my iPad Air for a refurbished 10th-generation iPad from Back Mar

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Top Highlights from Comic-Con 2025: 'Peacemaker,' 'Tron: Ares' and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 14:42:00

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 is now over, and while the event didn't bring Marvel to Hall H, fans got sneak peeks for upcoming releases like Tron: Ares and Predator: Badlands, along with cool toy booths for Lego and Hot Wheels. We were excited about Avatar: Seven Havens, It: Welcome to Derry, Gen V and The Boys, and we've highlighted some of the hottest and most interesting stuff from the weekend's events. Peacemaker season 2 trailer gives us a portal and Rick Flagg Sr. James Gunn arrived in Hall

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Trump admin. is muffling CDC’s flagship health journal, report finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-02 16:45:28

The flagship health journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown quiet this year, and a report from MedPage Today indicates that a variety of actions by the Trump administration may be to blame for hamstringing the critical resource. Most strikingly, sources told MedPage that the journal's scientific articles must now obtain clearance for publication from health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—who has no health, science, or medical back

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Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot Mode

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-02 16:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to test a new experimental Copilot Mode inside its Edge browser today. The AI-powered mode allows Copilot to search across all your open tabs and handle tasks like booking a restaurant, and it brings the Copilot chatbot to your new tab page. Copilot Mode is somewhere between the limited Gemini integration that Google is testing in Chrome and the AI-powere

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NixOS on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 AMD Laptop

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 06:35:04

I link to TUXEDO a lot in this blog post. These links are not affiliate links, and this post is not sponsored (duh). TUXEDO Computers is a laptop manufacturer based in Augsburg, Germany, who are special to Linux users because they’re one of the few manufacturers developing specifically for Linux. They ship with their own TUXEDO OS, which comes with KDE Plasma by default. For my new job, I actually wanted a Framework laptop with an AMD chip, but they were temporarily out of stock so I opted for

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Marvel's 'Fantastic Four: First Steps': Are There Post-Credits Scenes?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 20:04:19

Marvel's newest movie is here, and we have good and bad news. The good: You don't have to do any homework before seeing The Fantastic Four: First Steps, according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. The bad: It's the last Marvel flick we're getting until 2026. More good: It has a super Rotten Tomatoes score. More bad: You'll miss out if you don't stick around to watch the credits. The Fantastic Four: First Steps premiered in theaters on Friday and kicks off Phase Six of the Marvel Cinemati

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Free Autoswagger Tool Finds the API Flaws Attackers Hope You Miss

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-03 00:01:11

APIs: Still Easy Targets in 2025 APIs are the backbone of modern applications - and one of the most exposed parts of an organization’s infrastructure. This makes them a prime target for attackers. One of the highest-profile examples was the Optus breach in 2022, where attackers stole millions of customer records through an unauthenticated API endpoint - costing the telecom company $140 million AUD in fallout. Worryingly, vulnerabilities like this are so easy to exploit you could teach someone

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Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-03 02:19:31

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. government documents. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla designated it as such in a July 24 letter to the Superintendent of Documents at the Government Publishing Office, which oversees the Federal Depository Library Program that coordinates a network of over 1,150 such libraries. "Through its Democracy

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RFK Jr. May Purge Cancer Screening Panel for Being Too ‘Woke’

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-03 02:35:02

It looks as though Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t quite done tearing apart the country’s public health system. The antivaccination supporter turned health secretary is reportedly planning to retire the current roster of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on Kennedy’s plan last Friday. RFK Jr. is expected to remove all 16 members of the USPSTF, allegedly because they’re too “woke.” The move would follow Kennedy’s recent gutting and resh

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Despite Starlink’s Improved Speeds, It Still Misses the FCC’s Broadband Standard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 23:39:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as it was two years ago, according to a recent report from the speed test site Ookla. (Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) Median download speeds from the satellite internet provider have steadily ticked up over the past few years, going from 53.95 megabits per second in 2022 to 104.71Mbps today. That’s an impressive feat considering Starlink added about 5 million customers over the same period and recently passed the 6 mi

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How the Federal Reserve Actually Affects Mortgage Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 23:48:00

The Fed's interest rate decisions impact mortgages, but the relationship isn't straightforward. Tharon Green/CNET If you tracked the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions last year, you might have been puzzled: The Fed's three interest rate cuts didn't bring about lower mortgage rates. In fact, the average rate for a 30-year fixed home loan has hovered around 6.8% for the past several months. The Fed's interest rate decisions don't have a direct or immediate effect on home loan rates. Of

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Latest Tech News

5 gaming gadgets and accessories that seriously leveled up my setup (including a twist)

Truchet Tiles

Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language

Here are the eight Apple security layers protecting your data

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales triple as EssilorLuxottica doubles down on wearables

July Mortgage Rate Forecast: The Fed Isn't Rushing to Lower Interest Rates

Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones

Has 5G lived up to the hype? People are united in this survey.

‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

James Cameron Wants to Do an ‘Avatar’ Animated Anthology Movie

Scientists Create Prototype of Robot Designed to Cannibalize Parts of Other Robots and Build Them Into Itself

Microsoft trials Copilot Mode in Edge

Man Spends 6 Days in the Hospital After Toothbrushing Session Goes Terribly Wrong

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test

‘Rick and Morty’ Exec Producer Dan Harmon Is Already Thinking 2 Seasons Ahead

Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

KMPlayer is a powerful media player with broad format support

This new Wyze lamp socket is the outdoor smart home upgrade I've been waiting for

I Wanted Maximum Visits at My Bird Feeder. A Wildlife Expert Gave Me These Tips

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

Top Highlights from Comic-Con 2025: 'Peacemaker,' 'Tron: Ares' and More

Trump admin. is muffling CDC’s flagship health journal, report finds

Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot Mode

NixOS on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 AMD Laptop

Marvel's 'Fantastic Four: First Steps': Are There Post-Credits Scenes?

Free Autoswagger Tool Finds the API Flaws Attackers Hope You Miss

Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library

RFK Jr. May Purge Cancer Screening Panel for Being Too ‘Woke’

Despite Starlink’s Improved Speeds, It Still Misses the FCC’s Broadband Standard

How the Federal Reserve Actually Affects Mortgage Rates

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