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Pick up one of our favorite Bluetooth speakers while it's down to only $60

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-05 03:50:37

Yes, summer might be coming to a close sooner than any of us would like, but that doesn't mean the outdoor fun has to end. Currently, Ultimate Ears' Wonderboom 4 Bluetooth speaker is down to $60 from $100 in blue and black. The 40 percent discount brings the speaker to a record-low price. It's one of our picks for best portable Bluetooth speakers for 2025 thanks to features like its 14 hours of battery life and its IP67 dust and waterproof rating. There are a few other great sales on UE speake

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Why Perplexity is going after Google Chrome - and yes, it's serious

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-05 03:24:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Perplexity makes $34.5B bid to buy Google's Chrome browser. Deal would give Perplexity a gateway to the AI-driven web. Perplexity's bid could spark a bidding war. When the Wall Street Journal broke the news that AI company Perplexity made an unsolicited all-cash offer of $34.5 billion to buy Google's Chrome browser, some people asked me, "Are they serious?" Oh, yes, it is. Also: 5 reasons why I still prefer Perplexity over every other AI c

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I Tested a $200 Budget Phone and It Didn't Make Me Look Like a Cheapskate

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 03:00:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.0 / 10 SCORE TCL 60 XE NxtPaper 5G Pros Quality display for the price E-reader mode extends already-solid battery life NxtPaper Color Ink mode is perfect for night owls Cons Grainy picture quality on main camera Slight delay when multitasking Gets uncomfortably hot when gaming The TCL 60 XE NxtPaper 5G is an impressive budget phone that meets or exc

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Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2026-01-05 03:46:13

On Monday, xAI’s Grok chatbot suffered a mysterious suspension from X, and faced with questions from curious users, it happily explained why. “My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza,” it told one user. “It was flagged as hate speech via reports,” it told another, “but xAI restored the account promptly.” But wait — the flags were actually a “platform error,” it said. Wait, no — “it appears related to content refinements by xAI, possibly tied

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Bezos-backed Perplexity AI makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-05 11:43:21

Bezos-backed Perplexity AI makes surprise bid for Google Chrome 2 hours ago Share Save Osmond Chia & Imran Rahman-Jones Business & technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Artificial intelligence start-up Perplexity AI has made a surprise $34.5bn (£25.6bn) takeover bid for the world's most popular web browser, Google Chrome. The three-year-old firm, whose backers include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and chip maker Nvidia, is headed by a former Google and OpenAI employee. But one technology i

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Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2026-01-05 10:38:18

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The startup also offered to buy TikTok earlier this year. Google hasn’t indicated that it would sell Chrome at any price, and so far, the court hasn’t ordered a sale. Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer confirmed to The Verge that the WSJ’s reporting is accurat

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FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 12:19:35

@ -7682,6 +7682,113 @@ There are 6 samples at -4 dB, 62 at -5 dB, 286 at -6 dB, etc. In other words, raising the volume by +4 dB does not cause any clipping, raising it by +5 dB causes clipping for 6 samples, etc. @anchor{whisper} @section whisper It runs automatic speech recognition using the OpenAI's Whisper model. It requires the whisper.cpp library (https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp) as a prerequisite. After installing the library it can be enabled using: @code{./configure --en

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Illegal Price-Gouging Runs Rampant After Disasters. The LA Fires Proved It

gizmodo.com Jake Bittle 2026-01-05 14:00:23

Last January, a series of massive wildfires broke out across the Los Angeles area, fueled by high winds and dry temperatures. The fires raged for weeks, incinerating entire neighborhoods in the wealthy Pacific Palisades and in middle-class Altadena. They killed at least 30 people and destroyed at least 10,000 homes. As the embers cooled, thousands of displaced Angelenos scrambled to find new housing in a rental market that was already among the nation’s toughest. They scoured Zillow and Airbnb

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, Aug. 13

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 06:36:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 13, #1516: Did You Know This Word?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 11:00:06

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Best Unlimited Data Plans for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 12:01:00

When it comes to perks like streaming services and other extras, two plans run neck and neck: Verizon’s Unlimited Welcome and T-Mobile’s Experience More. We give Verizon a slight edge thanks to its modular approach to customizing perks -- even if each one comes as a separate paid add-on. When we specced out the two plans with similar offerings, the cost was about the same. While other providers tend to reserve perks like streaming services for higher-tier plans, Verizon’s Unlimited Welcome lets

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Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2026-01-05 14:15:03

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’ve enjoyed Elon Musk’s ongoing beef with Sam Altman and OpenAI, get ready for a whole new chapter: soon they’ll be rivals not just in AI, but in brain-computer interfaces too. The Financial Times reports that Altman and OpenAI are backing a new company called Merge Labs developing

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AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-05 16:06:51

AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome The BBC has contacted Google for comment. The firm has not announced any plans to sell Chrome - the world's most popular web browser with an estimated three billion-plus users. But one technology industry investor called the offer a "stunt" that is a much lower than Chrome's true value and highlighted that it is not clear whether the platform would is even for sale. Moving Chrome to an independent operator committed to user safety wo

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Apple says the App Store is 'fair and free of bias' in response to Musk's legal threats

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-05 11:55:55

Apple has denied Elon Musk's accusation that it's favoring OpenAI in its App Store rankings and making it impossible for other AI companies to reach the top. In a statement sent to Bloomberg, Apple said the App Store is "designed to be fair and free of bias." The company's spokesperson explained that the App Store features "thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria." They added: "Our goal is to offer safe discover

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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 18:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-05 16:25:19

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, the company said the model would simplify the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI hoped GPT-5 would act as a sort of “one size fits all” AI model with a router that would automatically decide how to best answer user questions. The company said this unified approach would eliminate the need for users to navigate its model picker — a long, complicated menu of AI options that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly said he hates. But it looks like GPT-5 is not the unified A

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Galileo’s telescopes: Seeing is believing (2010)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 11:33:43

Four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was in a state of anxiety. In January, he had discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter. In March, he had published this and other remarkable discoveries made with his improved telescope in Sidereus Nuncius (‘The Starry Messenger’). But by the summer, he was becoming profoundly alarmed. He had offered philosophers and mathematicians in Venice, Padua, Florence, Pisa and Bologna the chance to look through his telescope and confirm his discoveries. S

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The 20 Best PS4 Games

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 21:20:39

It has been more than a decade since Sony released the PlayStation 4, but the console is just as important as ever. Despite being released in November 2013, the PS4 is still in production today, with well over 100 million units being sold over its lifetime and some new games still arriving on it, including Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii. When it launched in 2013, Sony's eighth-gen console arrived with tech upgrades that seem du jour now, but were exciting over a decade ago. For instance

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Best Side-Sleeper Mattress 2025: Picked by a Sleep Science Coach

wired.com Martin Cizmar 2026-01-05 21:30:23

If you are looking for the best side-sleeper mattresses, welcome. You’re in good company, as many of the WIRED Reviews team are also side sleepers. So are most Americans. The numbers vary across studies and depend on how rigidly you define “side sleeper,” but between half and three-quarters of people sleep on their side for at least part of the night. If you're a side sleeper, you know how crucial it is that your bed keeps your back aligned while the hips and shoulders get some cushioning. Othe

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What are Apple’s options for an AI acquisition beyond Perplexity?

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-06 03:26:30

Since Apple’s latest earnings call, talk of a potential Perplexity acquisition has quieted down (the fact that Perplexity was once again allegedly caught red-handed sidestepping content restrictions didn’t help). Meanwhile, with the ever-increasing number of engineers from its Foundation Models team jumping ship, Apple’s need for fresh talent is getting more urgent by the day. But if Perplexity is a no-go, who else could Apple buy? I used to agree with Jason Snell’s frequent argument on the Up

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OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-06 03:12:39

OpenAI wants ChatGPT to know more about you, including your emails, calendar events in Google Calendar, and even your Google contacts, to reference everything in a conversation. In a new support document update, OpenAI confirmed it’s rolling out support for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts Connectors in ChatGPT (Pro). For those unaware, Connectors allow you to connect third-party services to ChatGPT. Once a service has been connected, ChatGPT can reference it in the chat. For examp

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Russell T Davies Wants You to Stop Asking Him If ‘Doctor Who’ Is Dead or Not

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-06 03:10:04

We can officially add Russell T Davies to the list of creative people who’ve become irritated with fans wanting updates on a particular project they’re inextricably linked to. Think George R.R. Martin and The Winds of Winter, or James Gunn and The Batman Part II. Now, the Doctor Who showrunner from 2005-2010 and again since 2023 would like you to stop asking him Doctor Who questions. No doubt those queries have only gotten more intense thanks to the utter lack of updates about the show’s future

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How to Play Battlefield 6 Beta: Open Access Resumes This Friday

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 00:10:00

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and after an exciting first beta weekend, you can join the fray again in just a few days. Battlefield 6's first public beta is available to everyone and will resume this weekend. It's not too late to join in, and here's how. The Battlefield 6 open beta is the first chance for players to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release on Oct. 10. While those with early access got a c

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Best Side Sleeper Mattress 2025: Picked By a Sleep Science Coach

wired.com Martin Cizmar 2026-01-06 03:30:23

If you are looking for the best side-sleeper mattresses, welcome. You’re in good company, as many of the WIRED Reviews team are also side sleepers. So are most Americans. The numbers vary across studies and depend on how rigidly you define “side sleeper,” but between half and three-quarters of people sleep on their side for at least part of the night. If you're a side sleeper, you know how crucial it is that your bed keeps your back aligned while the hips and shoulders get some cushioning. Othe

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This Bluetooth tracker's latest feature could save your life - but it costs extra

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-06 12:35:16

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Pebblebee announces a new safety feature for Clip trackers. Alert Live sends your real-time location to up to five contacts. The feature costs $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year. Days after announcing that its Clip would be the first tracker to be able to use both Google's and Apple's Find My networks, Pebblebee just revealed another major upgrade for the Clip -- a potentially life-saving one. In July, Clip trackers (which made ZDNET's list of the

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AI Startup Perplexity Offers to Buy Google's Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 10:56:00

Perplexity, the AI startup responsible for the eponymous chatbot and LLM-powered search engine, has made a formal bid to purchase Google's Chrome browser. The proposed $34.5 billion deal would eclipse Perplexity's current valuation. In July, the company was valued at $18 billion -- just over half the amount of the proposed bid. The company has said that several interested investors are willing to back the Chrome deal. Perplexity's bid comes after Google lost an antitrust suit initiated by the

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OpenAI adds new ChatGPT third-party tool connectors to Dropbox, MS Teams as Altman clarifies GPT-5 prioritization

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-06 17:29:34

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 Today, many eyes are on OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman‘s ongoing public feud with Elon Musk on the latter’s social network, X. But Altman’s recent statements regarding the ongoing rollout of his company’s latest and greatest large language model (LLM), GPT-5, are probably more important to customers and enterprise decision-makers. A

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This so-called Android ‘antivirus’ is just a front for spyware

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-06 16:35:03

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR LunaSpy Android spyware hides as an antivirus or banking protection app, spreading via messaging apps like Telegram. It fakes virus scans to trick you into granting permissions, then steals data, tracks you, and can even record audio or video. Avoid downloading APKs from messenger links and be wary of unknown security apps requesting broad permissions. Think you’re beefing up your Android phone’s security? If the antivirus app you just installed came

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Chrome isn’t for sale, but Perplexity just offered $34.5 billion anyway

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-06 17:55:10

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Perplexity AI has made a $34.5 billion cash offer for Google’s Chrome browser. Google isn’t selling Chrome and is appealing a court ruling that could one day force its sale. Perplexity says it has funding lined up and would keep Chrome open source with no search engine changes. Google might be forced to sell its Chrome browser in the future, thanks to a US court ruling that found it held an unlawful monopoly in online search. But while the case is st

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Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company

news.ycombinator.com Marc Rand 2026-01-06 17:09:43

If you like this post, follow my journey on Twitter: https://x.com/random The biggest hurdle to the one-person billion dollar company is not AI capability, but founder pain tolerance. Sam Altman is betting on it in his private group chats. Dario Amodei predicted it'll happen in 2026. These geniuses think the one-person billion dollar company is inevitable, and unicorn teams are getting smaller, but a one person? That’s not going to just happen. One person is an intentional choice by an i

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Pick up one of our favorite Bluetooth speakers while it's down to only $60

Why Perplexity is going after Google Chrome - and yes, it's serious

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Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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Galileo’s telescopes: Seeing is believing (2010)

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What are Apple’s options for an AI acquisition beyond Perplexity?

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This so-called Android ‘antivirus’ is just a front for spyware

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Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company

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