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The Merlin Bird ID App Is Better Than Meditation, and It's Not Just for Birders

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 04:34:03

I've done everything I can think of to improve my mindfulness. I've tried countless meditation apps and breathing exercises to stay in the present, and I'm always working on improving my mental health. What helps me stay grounded has nothing to do with any of that. It's an app for identifying birds. Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID launched in 2014 to help people identify the birds they see and hear. Thanks to eBird, the world's largest database of bird sounds and photos based on 80

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5 file management apps you should use instead of Files by Google

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 10:00:04

Andy Walker / Android Authority Every Android smartphone needs a file explorer, and for Pixel smartphones and many others, the default option is Files by Google. This free, lightweight app offers essential file management features, and its clean design makes viewing content in folders or categories quick and easy. It’s a great way to clean up duplicate files and maintain free space on your device, but it’s not the best file management app on Android. I’ve used many file explorers on Android ov

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I compared the best headphones from Apple, Sony, Bose, and Sonos: Here's how the AirPods Max wins

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-07 09:45:15

Jada Jones/ZDNET In the past few years, Bose, Sony, Sonos, and Beats have released premium headphones to compete with each other and Apple's AirPods Max. I've worn all of the AirPods Max's top competitors, and they each excel in different categories. But for an older dog in this fight, the AirPods Max are still kicking. Since their 2020 release (and 2024 re-release), the Max haven't received many significant software or hardware updates, aside from new colors, a USB-C port, and support for los

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I've tested every iPad sold by Apple right now - here's the model I recommend most

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-07 10:30:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The 11th-generation iPad 11th Generation normally retails for $349. The upgraded iPad has double the base storage as the previous generation, more RAM, and an upgraded processor in the A16 Bionic chip. However, it still isn't compatible with Apple Intelligence and doesn't support the Apple Pencil Pro. $299 at Amazon $349 at Apple $299 at Best Buy more buying choices It's not every day that a tech giant offers a new, improved product for an equal or lesser price than its

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Latest Apple Vision Pro immersive video now available for free

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-06 15:05:54

Apple has released the fourth installment of its Wild Life immersive video series on Apple Vision Pro. Episode four dropped on Friday, August 8. Apple Vision Pro users can stream it for free through the TV app on visionOS. The fourth episode, “Orangutans,” puts the viewer face-to-face with young orangutans at a rehab center in Borneo, a giant, rugged island in Southeast Asia. The level of detail viewed during the 10 minutes long episode is incredible. Whether you’re an animal lover or just hu

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘OnlyFlights’ is a simple flight tracker for your iPhone

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-06 22:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Last year, I checked out an indie app called Time2Pack – an all-in-one trip planner. Now, the developers have a new app called OnlyFlights – a simple yet robust flight tracker for iPhone users. Features OnlyFlights offers everything you’d expect from a flight tracker, including notifications for status

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Amazon’s rocky Alexa+ launch might justify Apple’s slow pace with next-gen Siri

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-07 03:53:51

Amazon has finally started rolling out Alexa+, its oft-delayed overhaul of the Alexa voice assistant built on large language model technology. However, Alexa+ shows how difficult it is to replace a mature voice assistant with generative AI, especially when users expect instant, consistent results for simple tasks. It’s a real reality check on the notion that Amazon has managed to release something Apple promised and hasn’t shipped. Alexa+, available as an limited preview on select Echo devices,

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How to stream UFC Fight Night Dolidze vs Hernandez live on your Apple devices

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-07 04:17:24

The UFC is back in Las Vegas tonight for UFC Fight Night Dolidze vs Hernandez. Whether you’re watching on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, or Apple Vision Pro, here’s how to stream the action live. Middleweight contenders Roman Dolidze (15–3) and Anthony Hernandez (14–2) headline the main card from UFC APEX. Prelims start at 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT, followed by the main card at 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT. Both air live on ESPN+ and broadcast on ESPN. Best ways to watch on Apple devices ESPN+ app: Download on iP

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Here’s why the current AirPods Pro 2 are still a good buy, even today

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-07 06:17:43

We’re possibly going to see yet another version of AirPods Pro next month, alongside the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup. Despite the current set of AirPods Pro coming up on nearly three years old, I don’t think that those in the market to buy new AirPods should necessarily waste their time waiting for a potentially upcoming model. AirPods Pro 2 keep getting better Even though we should get a new pair of AirPods Pro in the coming months, that hasn’t stopped Apple from continually making this pa

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An engineer's perspective on hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 16:49:11

note for my friends: this post is targeted at companies and engineering managers. i know you know that hiring sucks and companies waste your time. this is a business case for why they shouldn't do that. hiring sucks most companies suck at hiring. they waste everyone’s time (i once had a 9-round interview pipeline!), they chase the trendiest programmers, and they can’t even tell programmers apart from an LLM. in short, they are not playing moneyball. things are bad for interviewees too. some o

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Apple @ Work: Device Management Service migration is going to elminate vendor lock-in on Apple fleets

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-12-07 03:00:00

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New Apple Card bonus lets you earn $75 for a limited time

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-07 04:02:37

Apple Card sign up offers used to be quite rare, but they’ve become quite regular occurrences. I’ve reported on numerous bonuses in the past year – and there’s yet another one now available for new users looking to get an Apple Card. The offer This time around, Apple is offering $75 in Daily Cash after you spend $75 in your first 30 days of being a cardholder. It isn’t the most flashy offer, but it’s better than the typical Apple Card sign up offer – which is nothing. You can get the offer at

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5 iOS 26 features that made updating my iPhone worthwhile (and how to try them)

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-07 00:30:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple has been busy prepping iOS 26 for its likely debut in September. Until then, the iPhone's upcoming new OS has been accessible for anyone to try via a developer beta (now up to version 5) and the initial public beta. Though iOS 26 still has at least a month of tweaks before it's finalized, the beta flavors already provide a peek at what to expect. You can download iOS 26 beta on your iPhone now. Here's how to install it -- and which models support it. Also: My biggest reg

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I switched to this YouTube client and I’m never going back

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 04:30:19

Nathan Drescher / Android Authority YouTube has been a part of my life since its early days in the late 00s. It’s no secret that today’s YouTube is a far cry from what it used to be. YouTube was free back then; free from subscriptions, free from ads, even free from terrible video suggestions. It was raw and real. Now when we open the app we’re bombarded with pop-ups and ads and the algorithm is awful at surfacing stuff we want to watch. So like many of you, I went searching for a replacement.

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An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 04:49:11

note for my friends: this post is targeted at companies and engineering managers. i know you know that hiring sucks and companies waste your time. this is a business case for why they shouldn't do that. hiring sucks most companies suck at hiring. they waste everyone’s time (i once had a 9-round interview pipeline!), they chase the trendiest programmers, and they can’t even tell programmers apart from an LLM. in short, they are not playing moneyball. things are bad for interviewees too. some o

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Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 00:06:56

Installing apps on Sandstorm is as easy as installing apps on your phone. Find any app you want on the App Market and start using it with a few clicks. Every app comes with automatic updates.

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What Even Is Instagram Now?

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-07 04:00:00

In her classic novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley imagines a monster that's reanimated with its piecemeal body sewn together, tendon by tendon. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials,” Shelley writes. That’s exactly what scrolling through Instagram feels like right now—an ungodly morass of features stitched together. It’s an AI search tool! It’s a shopping app! It’s getting on my last nerve. Instagram is having a full-blown identity crisis, and I’m exha

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Gear News of the Week: iPhone 17 May Be a Month Away, and Sonos to Raise Prices

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-12-07 05:30:00

If rumors are correct, Apple's annual iPhone event will take place exactly a month from today, on September 9. That's according to a German website citing internal documents from German mobile phone providers, but the date was also previously suggested by Bloomberg's Apple whisperer, Mark Gurman. Leaks about Apple's upcoming smartphone lineup have heated up in recent weeks. Apple is expected to debut four iPhones as usual, with one key distinction. The “Plus” iPhone no longer exists, replaced b

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I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

news.ycombinator.com Terence Eden 2025-12-04 05:12:04

Look, I'm an idiot. I know that, you know that, and the man on the moon knows that. Let's not get into why I'm an idiot; let's just accept that I have my peculiarities and you have yours. My idiocy is a quest to make sure all my portable electronics can recharge using USB-C. Modern smartwatches are tiny and they do a lot. As a consequence, their battery life is generally poor. The industry's attempts to fix this are either to replace the charging standard every year hoping to find something mag

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Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro plummets to its record-low price, saving you $120

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 15:38:39

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’ve always been a huge fan of the iPad Mini series. These are much more portable, but usually more capable than the larger standard iPad. That said, they are also more expensive than an iPad, so it’s always good to wait for the right deal. We have a good one for you, today. The Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro is at its record-low price of $379! Buy the Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro for just $379 ($120 off) This offer is available from Amazon. The discount applies to all c

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Rumor Replay: Apple Watch Ultra 3 screen size, iPhone 17 event date, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-06 08:09:53

This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: Apple Watch Ultra 3’s screen bump, iPhone 17 event date, curious case leaks, an OLED MacBook Pro, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors. Apple Watch Ultra 3 getting larger screen After iOS 26 beta 5 was released earlier this week, Aaron Perris discovered that it includes an Apple Watch image with a resolution not matching any existing mod

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Apple acing its latest tech stack takeover is great news for the iPhone 17 Air

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-07 03:41:00

It’s been nearly six months since Apple changed a crucial piece of technology inside the iPhone. This timeline is great news for the all-new iPhone 17 Air coming in just a few short weeks. C1 chip success That core piece of tech, of course, is the cellular modem inside the iPhone. Starting with the more affordable iPhone 16e in February, Apple began shipping its first iPhone that uses its homegrown chip for making calls and connecting to cell networks. That’s enough time to determine that Ap

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This epic Severance mural might be the coolest thing you see all week

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-07 15:07:17

LA is populated with marketing materials for all sorts of entertainment, but this giant painted Severance mural is one-of-a-kind. Apple shared photos of “The Exalted Victory of Cold Harbor” mural on display near an Apple TV+ billboard on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles this week. The finishing touches were put on the mural at the end of July, according to passersby on social media. These are the shots shared by Apple, including a selfie by Severance lead actor Adam Scott: Meanwhile, a Facebook

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Apple taught an LLM to predict tokens up to 5x faster in math and coding tasks

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-07 15:53:20

A new research paper from Apple details a technique that speeds up large language model responses, while preserving output quality. Here are the details. The nerdy bits Traditionally, LLMs generate text one token at a time. This is slow because each step depends on all the previous ones to keep the output coherent and accurate. If the model is writing a sentence like “ The cat is black ”, it predicts each token in sequence. After writing “ The cat is ”, it looks at everything so far (plus the

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Jon Prosser answers Apple leak lawsuit with iPhone 17 Pro leak video

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-07 15:59:53

In his first new video since being sued by Apple for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information from an illegally accessed employee iPhone running unannounced software, Jon Prosser has returned with an iPhone 17 Pro video based on sources speculation. Every little detail about the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Air has basically been posted online by everyone except Apple at this point. Still, his renders are attractive as usual and it’s a good summary of what Apple is expected to announce. I doubt an

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My iPhone 17 Pro Wishlist Item Isn't a Feature: Give Me Colors Beyond Monochrome or Metal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 11:15:00

Sure, a lot of people wrap their new iPhone in a case but I've always cared a lot about how my smartphone looks. And for the iPhone Pro line, the colors have historically been muted. So when I saw rumors that the iPhone 17 Pro could arrive in colors such as orange, I started dreaming about a world where Apple's best phones exude a sense of fun like their siblings. For years, Apple has split its phones into two tiers: the "regular" iPhones and the Pro models. The former offer lower specs and pri

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Apple has its best week since July 2020 after White House visit

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-07 20:02:29

U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook shake hands on the day they present Apple's announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025. Apple shares rose 13% this week, its largest weekly gain in more than five years, after CEO Tim Cook appeared with President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday. Shares of the iPhone maker rose 4% to close at $229.35 per share on Friday for the com

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One of Microsoft’s best-rated mobile apps is bowing out soon

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 20:59:16

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft Lens PDF scanner will be retired on Android and iOS later this year. The phase-out begins in September, with scanning disabled after December 15, 2025. Microsoft is pushing users toward its 365 Copilot app, which lacks some Lens features. One of Microsoft’s most popular mobile utilities is heading for the chopping block. The Lens PDF scanner has long been a go-to for quickly turning documents and whiteboards into shareable files. Neverthele

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What to Stream This Weekend: 'Wednesday,' 'The Pickup,' 'Platonic' and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 18:00:04

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement What to Stream This Weekend: 'Wednesday,' 'The Pickup,' 'Platonic' and More Don't miss the latest on Netflix, Apple TV Plus and other platforms. Here's what you should binge this weekend.

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New Apple TV 4K is coming: Four features expected later this year

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-08 00:11:10

Apple TV+ is having a big year, but the Apple TV 4K streaming box still awaits its first revision since 2022—and that update is coming. Here are four features to expect when the new Apple TV 4K arrives later this year. #1: A17 Pro or A18 chip upgrade The current Apple TV 4K model launched in late 2022 and packed what was then a pretty modern chip: the A15 Bionic. But Apple’s silicon efforts continue achieving new heights, and demanding software like Apple Intelligence and newer games require

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The Merlin Bird ID App Is Better Than Meditation, and It's Not Just for Birders

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I've tested every iPad sold by Apple right now - here's the model I recommend most

Latest Apple Vision Pro immersive video now available for free

Indie App Spotlight: ‘OnlyFlights’ is a simple flight tracker for your iPhone

Amazon’s rocky Alexa+ launch might justify Apple’s slow pace with next-gen Siri

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Here’s why the current AirPods Pro 2 are still a good buy, even today

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Apple @ Work: Device Management Service migration is going to elminate vendor lock-in on Apple fleets

New Apple Card bonus lets you earn $75 for a limited time

5 iOS 26 features that made updating my iPhone worthwhile (and how to try them)

I switched to this YouTube client and I’m never going back

An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring

Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

What Even Is Instagram Now?

Gear News of the Week: iPhone 17 May Be a Month Away, and Sonos to Raise Prices

I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

Apple iPad Mini A17 Pro plummets to its record-low price, saving you $120

Rumor Replay: Apple Watch Ultra 3 screen size, iPhone 17 event date, more

Apple acing its latest tech stack takeover is great news for the iPhone 17 Air

This epic Severance mural might be the coolest thing you see all week

Apple taught an LLM to predict tokens up to 5x faster in math and coding tasks

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My iPhone 17 Pro Wishlist Item Isn't a Feature: Give Me Colors Beyond Monochrome or Metal

Apple has its best week since July 2020 after White House visit

One of Microsoft’s best-rated mobile apps is bowing out soon

What to Stream This Weekend: 'Wednesday,' 'The Pickup,' 'Platonic' and More

New Apple TV 4K is coming: Four features expected later this year

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