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The Best Budgeting Apps to Help You Take Control of Your Finances

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 13:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If monitoring your financial situation gives you anxiety, you're not alone. A recent survey from Secure Data Recovery found that 70% of Americans who track their spending feel anxious about it, as do 64% of those who track their savings. One way to reduce this anxiety is to let a budgeting app do the tedious work for you. Budget

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Google Has a New AI-Weather Model for Cyclones. Should Experts Trust It?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 13:37:58

On Thursday, Google announced a new advancement powered by artificial intelligence that could change the way we predict hurricanes. Weather Lab is an interactive website that shows live and historic AI weather models, including its latest tropical cyclone model, which includes hurricanes. It was developed by Google DeepMind, the company's London-based AI research lab. The cyclone model can predict the formation, track, intensity, size and shape of the storm. And it can create 50 possible scenar

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OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toymaking, other products

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-20 11:44:33

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toymaker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up

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Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from YC, Insight Partners

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-20 13:30:00

Canary, the hotel guest management platform, announced Thursday the raise of an $80 million Series D in a round led by Brighton Park Capital. Harman Singh Narula and childhood friend SJ Sawhney launched the company in 2018 to help hotels digitize and automate guest interactions. The company has raised nearly $180 million in funding to date. “Running a hotel is increasingly complex,” Singh Narula told TechCrunch. “Guest expectations are constantly evolving, and staffing shortages continue to st

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Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-20 17:14:38

NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty In his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near," the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the Singularity -- the moment in which machine intelligence surpasses our own -- would occur around the year 2045. Sam Altman believes it's much closer. In a blog post published Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO delivered a homily devoted to what he views as the imminent arrival of artificial "superintelligence." Whereas artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is usually defined as a computer

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Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 17:01:11

About Roame Our mission is to make travel perfect. Roame is a flight search engine using credit card points and miles. More than $69 billion worth of points issued every year. We empower over 1 million travelers to maximize the value of their points and miles. We are backed by top investors including Y Combinator, Goodwater, Accel’s starters fund, and angel investors including the leading figure within points. The Role We are hiring for a Lead Full Stack Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced,

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Google Offers Pixel Tablet Cheaper Than Last Prime Day, Competing With Apple’s Deal for Android Fans

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-20 17:10:04

When you think about productivity on the go, you undoubtedly think about your phone first. But what if you need a larger screen? What if more real estate in general for your portable workspace is what you’re looking for? You need a tablet. And if you’re considering a tablet that does more than just stream videos and browse the web, the Google Pixel Tablet is a standout choice. It’s great for just about any use case, and it’s actually a lot more affordable than some of the bigger heavy-hitters ou

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Unpacking AI Agents

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-09-20 17:46:05

In the past six months, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others have released web-browsing agents that are designed to complete tasks independently, with only minimal input from humans. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has even called AI agents “the next giant breakthrough.” On today’s episode, we'll dive into what makes these agents different from other forms of machine intelligence, and whether their capabilities can live up to the hype. You can follow Michael Calore on Bluesky at @snackfight, Lauren Good

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Here are Apple’s top AI announcements from WWDC 2025

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-20 17:53:12

Last year, Apple’s WWDC keynote highlighted the company’s ambitious strides in AI. This year, the company toned down its emphasis on Apple Intelligence and concentrated on updates to its operating systems, services, and software, introducing a new aesthetic it calls “Liquid Glass” along with a new naming convention. Nevertheless, Apple still attempted to appease the crowd with a few AI-related announcements, such as an image analysis tool, a workout coach, a live translation feature, and more.

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Google Pixel 10 may fail to live up to our MagSafe dreams, after all

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:28:50

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is preparing a range of “Pixelsnap” accessories for the Pixel 10 that support wireless charging. Despite Qi2 support, the phone may require the use of a case to add the magnets needed for alignment. In addition to Google’s own accessories, look for a range of similar Made by Google solutions from third parties. What is so hard about giving Android users what they want? When it comes to wirelessly charging our phones, we’re not asking for that m

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Instagram will soon let you re-arrange your grid

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:00:11

You don't have to make a huge effort planning Instagram posts anymore so that your profile takes on a certain aesthetic or so that your grid reads or looks a certain way. Instagram will soon (and finally) let you re-order the posts already on your grid. Alessandro Paluzzi, who reverse engineered apps and posted upcoming features online, found an "edit grid" option within Instagram way back in 2022. Instagram didn't say when exactly the feature will be available, but when you do get the edit grid

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This mandatory Pixel 6a update may limit your battery - but it's for your own good

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-20 21:49:54

Jason Cipriani/ZDNET At least for one device, the battery problems that have plagued some Pixel phones may be ending – but the fix is coming at a price. According to Alex Moriconi, communications manager at Google (Pixel phones), Google will soon release an update that will purposefully limit the battery capacity of some Pixel 6a phones, hopefully also limiting issues with overheating. Also: 4 exciting features Google just announced for Android phones (and why they're a big deal) In an email

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First thoughts on o3 pro

news.ycombinator.com Ben Hylak 2025-09-19 01:42:19

As “leaked”, OpenAI cut o3 pricing by 80% today (from $10/$40 per mtok to $2/$8 - matching GPT 4.1 pricing!!) to set the stage of the launch of o3-pro ($20/$80, supporting an unverified community theory that the -pro variants are 10x base model calls with majority voting as referenced in their papers and in our Chai episode). o3-pro reports a 64% win rate vs o3 on human testers and does marginally better on 4/4 reliability benchmarks, but as sama noticed, the actual experience expands when you t

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Blue Origin Delays New Glenn Again—and It’s a Bigger Setback Than It Seems

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-20 21:30:00

After gaining momentum last year, Jeff Bezos’ rocket venture has hit another snag. The second flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn slipped from early spring to late August, messing with the company’s original plan to launch its giant rocket eight times in 2025. Beyond missing launch targets, New Glenn’s recent delay also puts Project Kuiper—the internet satellites owned by Amazon—at risk of losing a critical operations license. This week, Dave Limp, the chief executive of Blue Origin, announced th

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The First ‘Spaceballs 2’ Teaser Confirms a Crucial Returning Star

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-20 21:50:34

Mel Brooks is really taking this Spaceballs thing seriously. In the original film, one of his characters, Yogurt, was a parody of Yoda, the Star Wars Jedi Master who lived to be almost 1,000. Well, now we know Brooks has been going all in on character preparation and, at the age of 99, will officially reprise Yogurt for the long-awaited sequel, set for release 40 years after the original. Here’s a hilarious teaser making it all official. I told you we’d be back pic.twitter.com/RnoklPqBX6 — Mel

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Battery manufacturer Powin files for bankruptcy months after landing $200M loan

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-20 21:28:24

Battery manufacturer Powin filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. The Oregon-based company said it has more than $300 million in debt. The Chapter 11 filing will let the company continue operating while it restructures its debt. Powin manufactured grid-scale batteries using lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cells from China. The company had been searching for alternative domestic suppliers, but the supply chain wasn’t sufficiently mature, Jeff Waters, the company’s former CEO, told Bloomberg in April.

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OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toy-making, other products

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-20 21:44:33

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toy-maker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up

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Google DeepMind just changed hurricane forecasting forever with new AI model

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-09-21 01:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Google DeepMind announced Thursday what it claims is a major breakthrough in hurricane forecasting, introducing an artificial intelligence system that can predict both the path and intensity of tropical cyclones with unprecedented accuracy — a longstanding challenge that has eluded traditional weather models for decades. The company launc

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Android 16 has finally arrived, and it’s time for your Pixel to upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-19 04:00:21

TL;DR Google has just released Android 16 stable for Pixel devices Other manufacturers can now follow suit with updates for their own device lineups. The Pixel 6 series and newer, including Google’s foldables and the Pixel tablet, are eligible for today’s update. Are you ready for the summer of Android 16? We’re just a week into June already, and while we missed the initially rumored June 3 launch, Android 16 is finally making its formal debut, as Google settles into its new release schedule.

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Apple Intelligence announcements at WWDC: Everything Apple revealed for iOS, macOS and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 01:27:43

Apple Intelligence hasn't landed in the way Apple likely hoped it would, but that's not stopping the company from continuing to iterate on its suite of AI tools. During its WWDC 2025 conference on Monday, Apple announced a collection of new features for Apple Intelligence, starting with upgrades to Genmoji and Image Playground that will arrive alongside iOS 26 and the company's other updated operating systems. In Messages, you'll be able to use Image Playground to generate colorful backgrounds

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Ancient Roman Street Vendors Served Up Songbirds

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-21 01:35:17

Ancient Romans in need of a quick bite often chowed down on fried songbirds, new research suggests. A researcher working on the island of Mallorca found bones of song thrushes inside a trash pit near the ruins of an ancient fast food joint. The study, published in May in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, suggests that thrushes were commonly sold and consumed in Roman cities. This challenges the long-held belief that these small, speckled birds were a delicacy reserved for elite ban

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Smart tires will report on the health of roads in new pilot program

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 01:50:36

Do you remember the Pirelli Cyber Tire? No, it's not an angular nightmare clad in stainless steel. Rather, it's a sensor-equipped tire that can inform the car it's fitted to what's happening, both with the tire itself and the road it's passing over. The technology has slowly been making its way into the real world, starting with rarified stuff like the McLaren Artura. Now, Pirelli is going to put some Cyber Tires to work for everybody, not just supercar drivers, in a new pilot program with the r

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Google has a new AI model and website for forecasting tropical storms

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-09-21 01:02:43

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. It sa

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Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-21 01:19:12

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Anker has issued a recall for its PowerCore 10000 power bank (model A1263) due to a “potential issue with the lithium-ion battery” that could pose a fire safety risk. The company has received 19 reports of fires and explosions that have caused minor burn injuries and resulted in property damage totaling over $60,700, according to the US Consumer

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8BitDo’s Ultimate 2C controller drops to $25

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 05:40:21

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 . If you’re looking for a versatile new wireless controller that isn’t exclusive to a particular platform, 8BitDo’s various pads are always worth considering. And Amazon’s current deal on the brand’s Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller is nearly the cheapest we’ve seen. Right now, if you pic

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I tested a Eufy robot vacuum with a built-in handheld vac - and it just dropped to 42% off

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-21 04:07:47

ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Clean E20 3-in-1 robot vacuum and handheld vacuum combination costs $650. The Eufy E20 performed very well in suction testing; it offers up to 8,000Pa of suction power and thorough edge cleaning; the robot vacuum's dustbin doubles as a handheld vacuum that includes a floor attachment and a crevice tool. Unfortunately, the handheld vacuum doesn't offer powerful suction like that of a standalone unit like a Dyson, and removing it from the robot isn't easy with one

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6 new Android ecosystem treats that have this gadget geek grinning

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-21 04:15:13

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I've been using Android devices since 2007 and now have a rather large collection of Google devices in my home and office. The latest ecosystem updates will improve my efficiency with communications, safety, and daily commuting. Also: Your Android phone is getting a huge security upgrade for free - what's new While this week's focus has been on the release of Android 16, there are also six new features for Android that I am particularly excited about, and

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I tested an AI-powered glucose monitor against a traditional monitor for two weeks. Here's my verdict

zdnet.com Allison Jewell 2025-09-21 05:18:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Stelo by Dexcom is an over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor that uses sensors to track glucose levels and export data to your smartphone. The app utilizes generative AI to provide lifestyle recommendations and share data with your healthcare provider. However, it needs needs additional features in future iterations to offer a more comprehensive experience. $99 at Amazon I was diagnosed as prediabetic and insulin resistant during middle school, and ever since, I

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Helion: A modern fast paced Doom FPS engine in C#

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 13:56:51

The latest stable release for Windows and most Linux distros can be downloaded here. Nightly experimental builds are also available here for users who want to test the latest features before they’re ready. Helion uses .NET 9. The self-contained Helion releases include it, otherwise Windows users will need to install the Desktop Runtime, and Linux users will need to follow the instructions for their distro. On Linux, you will also need to make sure OpenAL, libsndfile, and libmpg123 are installed

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Why Bats Don’t Get Cancer—and What That Means for Humans

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-21 04:50:16

When you think of longevity in animals, chances are that the Greenland shark will immediately come up. After all, researchers estimate that the enigmatic animal can live for at least 250 years. It turns out, however, that bats also hold their own when it comes to lifespan, with some species living up to 25 years—equivalent to 180 human years—and they tend to do it cancer-free. Researchers from the University of Rochester (UR) have investigated anti-cancer “superpowers,” as described in a UR sta

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