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Major Philips Hue launch turns bulbs into motion sensors, adds smart doorbell, more

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-22 04:20:06

We’ve known for some time that there was major news on the way from Philips Hue, and the company has now announced all of the details. One of the headline features is a new Bridge Pro which turns your existing smart bulbs into motion sensors. Bulbs also get more affordable, light strips get brighter, and there’s support for Matter-over-Thread. Finally, the smart doorbell leaked earlier in the year is now official … Plans to turn existing Philips Hue light bulbs into motion sensors were leaked

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Paramount Plus annual plans half-price for limited time, from $30

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-22 04:39:02

With Apple TV+ and other streaming services increasing their prices this year, there’s some rare good news from Paramount. For a limited period, you can get one of two annual plans for half price … Engadget has the details. A year of the Paramount+ Essential plan, which is ad-supported, will cost $30 compared to the usual $60. Paramount+ Premium, which is ad-free except for live tv programming, will cost $60 for a year instead of $120. This is a substantial deal that both new and returning sub

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The big iPhone 17 Air question: will Apple’s new design phone carry a premium price tag?

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-22 04:42:09

Next week, Apple will announce the new lineup of iPhone. The big change is the discontinuation of the iPhone 16 Plus phone, instead introducing a new thin form factor design model. This is widely expected to be branded as the iPhone 17 Air. It will feature the thinnest chassis of an iPhone ever, measuring about 5.5mm at its thinnest point. The tradeoff to achieve the strikingly-thin enclosure is a compromise on camera specs, with the model featuring just one rear lens. But the big question over

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Hue takes on cheaper rivals with the entry-level Essential smart bulb lineup

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 04:04:15

Hue just did its biggest product launch ever as part of IFA 2025 and a key product is the new entry-level Essential smart bulb lineup. Though still not as cheap as some products you can find on Amazon, it's designed to take on budget rivals like Govee and Aqara with bulbs starting under $20. The new range includes A19 bulbs, GU10 spots and strip lights with and without color options. Effectively, you're not losing a lot compared to the regular color/white bulbs. They still run on the same platf

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Save $50 on the OnePlus Pad 3 and get a free stylus pen - here's the deal

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-22 01:00:18

'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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Dolby Vision 2 has arrived, but you don't have to replace your TV for a new one yet

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-22 01:15:18

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Dolby has announced Dolby Vision 2, a "groundbreaking" HDR format. DV2 will bring several quality upgrades and fix one big complaint. Hisense TVs will be among the first to support the new tech. The next generation of HDR is here. Dolby unveiled Dolby Vision 2, the successor to Dolby Vision HDR that debuted a little more than a decade ago, the company said Tuesday. Calling it a "groundbreaking e

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Your Android phone just got 3 free upgrades - including a big one for Quick Share

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-22 01:45:17

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A new Google update is adding several features to Android phones. A new AI writing tool for Gboard is on the way. An upgraded Emoji Keyboard will help you find the perfect emoji. Your Android phone is getting an upgrade, and it might have a big impact on how you communicate. Also: Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reaso

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The OnePlus 12 was already our favorite budget Android phone - and now it's $300 off

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-22 02:00:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET The OnePlus 12 may no longer be the company's current flagship model, but it remains a solid device. It boasts top-notch performance from its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform and incredibly fast charging speeds. It's a more affordable alternative to the OnePlus 13, and now is a great time to buy one because the device is currently on sale. Visit the company's website and enter the code "BACK2COLLEGE" at checkout to receive a $300 discount on the 512GB OnePlus 12. This deal on

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Linux Mint 22.2 delivers fresh features and polish for everyday Linux users - and longtime fans

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-22 02:03:35

My highly customized Linux Mint 22.2 Zara desktop runs like a charm. sjvn Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux Mint Zara is an excellent desktop for both Linux and Windows users looking for a change. Linux Mint 22.2 comes with numerous modest improvements. You can run the new Mint without worrying about needing to make major updates. Clement "Clem" Lefebvre and the rest of the Linux Mint team have done it again. With the release of Linux Mint 22

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Samsung just launched new flagship Galaxy tablets - and quietly removed this model

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-22 02:30:17

'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 Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 02:12:13

Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation mus

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Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 20:01:49

After working hard since our Polars Cloud announcement last February, we are pleased to officially launch Polars Cloud. Polars Cloud is now Generally Available on AWS. Beyond that, we also launched our novel Distributed Engine in Open Beta on Polars Cloud. You can immediately get started at https://cloud.pola.rs/. After that you can fire a remote distributed query: import polars_cloud as pc import polars as pl from datetime import date with pc . ComputeContext ( workspace = "<my-workspace>" ,

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The Color of the Future: A history of blue

news.ycombinator.com Étienne Fortier-Dubois 2025-10-22 02:27:53

La Gare Saint-Lazare, arrivée d'un train , by Claude Monet (1877) My favorite color has changed throughout my life, cycling through the entire spectrum of visible light and beyond. I don’t remember when blue was the chosen one, exactly; maybe when I was 13 or so. After that, yellow, purple, orange, green, and pink occupied the top spot for various periods. Blue never made a comeback. I saw it as a banal, common color. After all, the sky is made of it, and the sky is everywhere. Then I realized

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Anker’s Mammoth Projector Is Now So Big You Should Just Call It R2-D2

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-22 01:30:52

I was already impressed enough with Anker’s SoundCore Nebula X1 projector when I saw it back in April. We all dream of having our own full theater in our homes, or at least something transportable enough that we could hang a bedsheet in our backyard and pretend we’re at the cinema. It was one of the first projectors with its own internal liquid cooling system to keep it from overheating. Then came along the Nebula X1 Pro, a projector so big it could be a Star Wars droid that’s large enough to pa

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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S11 Tablets Come in Two Sizes: Big and Absolutely Huge

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-22 02:30:12

There are only so many ways to make a tablet. If you’re Acer, you give most of your new Iconia tablets kickstands. If you’re Apple, well, you just say it’s a new iPad and call it a day. And if you’re Samsung, you announce the new Galaxy Tab S11 and S11 Ultra and make everybody play a game of “spot the difference” between the two Android tablets. At IFA 2025, Samsung debuted the two new tablets, and yes, you may need ChatGPT to create a table comparing the two to see what one has that the other

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Samsung's $650 Galaxy S25 FE Gets Fast 45W Charging, Thinner Design

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 02:30:04

Samsung's new $650 Galaxy S25 FE is getting some of my favorite features seen on the more-expensive $1,000 Galaxy S25 Plus, with a number of hardware tweaks that bring down the price. Samsung revealed the phone as part of its Thursday morning Galaxy Unpacked livestream, which also features new Galaxy Tab S11 tablets. The Galaxy S25 FE launches with the company's One UI 8 overlay for Android 16, which we first saw on Samsung's new Z Fold and Z Flip phones last summer. One UI 8 has a refined desi

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I Let the Pixel 10's AI Camera Coach Tell Me How to Take Photos and Here Are the Results

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 04:00:10

If you look through the camera roll on your phone, what kind of photos do you find? I see images of my friends, my pets, the odd receipt for a work expense and snapshots of coffee -- hey, I was a barista for 11 years! Not every photo is meant to rival an Ansel Adams masterpiece. (Though I'm sure if he had a smartphone, he'd also take a pic of his parking space to remember where he parked his car.) If you want to take better photos with your phone, Google has added a new tool to the Pixel 10 cam

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Porsche Is Set to Be the First Electric Car Maker to Deliver Wireless Charging Later This Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 04:02:00

Table of Contents Porsche Is Set to Be the First Electric Car Maker to Deliver Wireless Charging Later This Year Those who closely follow electric cars will have heard whispers of wireless charging for a while now. And if you're not an EV aficionado, you've probably wondered why it hasn't happened. Well, that's all about to change. Porsche announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out wireless charging on the upcoming all-electric Cayenne later this year. The goal is to put an end to wrangling t

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Apple's iPhone 17 Is Almost Here: These Are the Biggest Rumors

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 04:30:03

Key takeaways: The iPhone 17 could feature a redesigned camera bump, though it may not be as drastic a difference as the Pro models. A higher refresh rate could be coming to the full lineup, potentially enabling the baseline iPhone to have an always-on display. Prices remain uncertain with tariffs, but they'll likely go up, given it's been years since Apple raised the price of the iPhone. The anticipated reveal of Apple's newest iPhone is just days away, with the big unveiling slated for Sept

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Is Congestion Pricing Working? The MTA’s Revamped Data Team Is Figuring It Out

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-22 03:00:00

For the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s data and analytics team, January 5, 2025, felt a lot like kismet. Three and a half years earlier, New York state legislators had passed a law requiring the MTA to release “easily accessible, understandable, and usable” data to the public; by January 2022, MTA chair and CEO Janno Lieber officially announced the new team’s formation. Meanwhile, New York City’s controversial congestion pricing program, which tolls cars entering Manhatta

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Anker stuffed its awesome Nebula X1 projector into a party speaker

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-10-22 01:30:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anker took its portable and incredibly bright Nebula X1 projector and jammed it into a 30 x 17 x 13.5-inch box with a 160W subwoofer to create the Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro. The resulting Google TV party projector — announced at IFA 2025 — weighs 72.4

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Report: 70% of iPhone users considering an upgrade to iPhone 17 - and it's not AI related

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-22 05:00:17

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways More than 68% of iPhone users plan to upgrade to an iPhone 17. Battery life is the top reason cited for upgrading. The high price of a new iPhone is one reason for not upgrading. Will you be lining up to buy an iPhone 17 when the new phone debuts later this month? If so, you're in good company. A majority of the 2,000 existing iPhone owners recently polled by phone reseller SellCell said they ai

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My 5 simple tricks to extend iPhone battery life when traveling (including older models)

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-22 05:45:18

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My wife and I like to travel, both in the US and abroad. Naturally, we always take our iPhones with us to snap photos and videos, search for directions, and stay in touch with other people. But when you use your phone all day with no available AC outlets, keeping your battery charge alive can be difficult. As I've trekked to various spots, I've tried different tricks and techniques to prevent the battery from c

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Philips Hue lights get bigger, brighter, and cheaper with a major product refresh

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-10-22 05:30:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Smart lighting company Philips Hue debuted a bunch of new products this week at the IFA tech show in Berlin, Germany, and most of them are available now. The launch, which is the biggest in the company’s history, includes cheaper smar

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Philips Hue responds to cheaper competitors with major product overhaul

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-10-22 05:30:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Philips Hue has announced the biggest revamp of its smart lighting line in years, introducing lower-cost lights, support for Matter over Thread, and a new generation of brighter light strips. The update includes the launch of a new Es

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OnePlus will give you a $300 smartwatch for free right now - here's how to qualify

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-22 03:05:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET to learn more about smartphones: Add us as a preferred source on Google. OnePlus is holding yet another Back to School sales event for its flagship phone, the OnePlus 13. Right now, if you purchase either the 256GB or the 512GB OnePlus 13, you'll receive a free OnePlus Watch 2 (normally $300) in either Radiant Steel (gray) or Black Steel -- your choice. If you don't want the wearable, you can instead receive a Wood Grain Magnetic Half-pack Case for free. Be aware

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 4, #346

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 05:16:35

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The

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Reflecting on Apple’s attempts at a fourth flagship iPhone: Will the 17 Air do better?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-22 06:17:17

At next week’s ‘Awe Dropping’ Apple Event, Apple will release the iPhone 17 lineup. One of the most noteworthy models this year will be an entirely new one: the iPhone 17 Air. It’s going to be an ultra-thin iPhone, and it’s set to replace the iPhone 16 Plus entirely. That being said, will this third attempt at making a fourth iPhone model actually pan out this time? A continually growing iPhone lineup Apple has slowly been growing the size of its iPhone lineup. It started off with one a year,

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Netflix now lets you (almost) easily share clips of your favorite shows

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-22 07:20:02

The Netflix app now lets you select the start and end points of a clip, so you can share it outside the app. Here’s how it works. You can now save a clip, and then share it outside the Netflix app Historically, most streaming services have been allergic to sharing features, as they feared they would facilitate piracy. For many years, even simple screenshots were a no-no. One day, they realized that the potential gains from a random moment of an original movie or show going viral outweighed th

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Ten Thousand Lifetimes with Roguelikes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 18:46:24

Ten Thousand Lifetimes with Roguelikes Angband When I was a kid, a few factors combined to give me what I suspect will be a lifelong neurosis about video games: my basic respect for my parents’ authority and opinions, my mother’s extreme disdain (it seemed to me, at least, at the time) for any and all electronic gaming, and my borderline obsession with same. My brother and I weren’t allowed a game system until, after much parental deliberation, I gather, we received a Super Nintendo for the Chr

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Major Philips Hue launch turns bulbs into motion sensors, adds smart doorbell, more

Paramount Plus annual plans half-price for limited time, from $30

The big iPhone 17 Air question: will Apple’s new design phone carry a premium price tag?

Hue takes on cheaper rivals with the entry-level Essential smart bulb lineup

Save $50 on the OnePlus Pad 3 and get a free stylus pen - here's the deal

Dolby Vision 2 has arrived, but you don't have to replace your TV for a new one yet

Your Android phone just got 3 free upgrades - including a big one for Quick Share

The OnePlus 12 was already our favorite budget Android phone - and now it's $300 off

Linux Mint 22.2 delivers fresh features and polish for everyday Linux users - and longtime fans

Samsung just launched new flagship Galaxy tablets - and quietly removed this model

I Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering

Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

The Color of the Future: A history of blue

Anker’s Mammoth Projector Is Now So Big You Should Just Call It R2-D2

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S11 Tablets Come in Two Sizes: Big and Absolutely Huge

Samsung's $650 Galaxy S25 FE Gets Fast 45W Charging, Thinner Design

I Let the Pixel 10's AI Camera Coach Tell Me How to Take Photos and Here Are the Results

Porsche Is Set to Be the First Electric Car Maker to Deliver Wireless Charging Later This Year

Apple's iPhone 17 Is Almost Here: These Are the Biggest Rumors

Is Congestion Pricing Working? The MTA’s Revamped Data Team Is Figuring It Out

Anker stuffed its awesome Nebula X1 projector into a party speaker

Report: 70% of iPhone users considering an upgrade to iPhone 17 - and it's not AI related

My 5 simple tricks to extend iPhone battery life when traveling (including older models)

Philips Hue lights get bigger, brighter, and cheaper with a major product refresh

Philips Hue responds to cheaper competitors with major product overhaul

OnePlus will give you a $300 smartwatch for free right now - here's how to qualify

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 4, #346

Reflecting on Apple’s attempts at a fourth flagship iPhone: Will the 17 Air do better?

Netflix now lets you (almost) easily share clips of your favorite shows

Ten Thousand Lifetimes with Roguelikes

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