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4 Best Smart Glasses (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-09-09 01:00:00

The idea of smart glasses has been around for decades, but the technology is finally catching up. The best smart glasses can entertain, guide us with directions, help us document our lives, and even teach us about the world around us, but the category is incredibly varied, and not all smart glasses have the same features. A computer you wear on your face has obvious potential, not least because it leaves your hands free. As a new wave of smart glasses arrives, we got sneak-peek demos of several

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Amazon Clearing Out Smart TVs, This 42″ Full HD Model Sold for Peanuts Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-10 05:12:56

While OLED TVs are their own attraction, none of them will be under $1,000 and they’re not necessarily the most convenient for all parts of the house. For the majority of consumers, a smart TV like this Insignia 42-inch Fire TV is the perfect blend of quality and price (especially at the price tag it’s carrying). Currently, this Insignia TV is available for only $119, having originally been priced at $179. That’s an fantastic 33% discount and one of the cheapest means of improving home entertai

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Android 16 QPR1 beta 2 has a hidden customization option for the lock screen clock

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 15:54:08

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google introduced new lock screen clock customization options in Android 16 QPR1 beta 1. In the second beta release, the company has added another hidden customization option for the lock screen clock. This new option lets you switch between “Rounded” and “Sharp” font styles for the default lock screen clock. Google rolled out the first Android 16 QPR1 beta release last month, introducing a new customization option for the lock screen clock. The beta

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How Private Equity Killed the American Dream

wired.com Louise Matsakis 2025-09-10 17:00:00

In her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, journalist and WIRED alum Megan Greenwell chronicles the devastating impacts of one of the most powerful yet poorly understood forces in modern American capitalism. Flush with cash, largely unregulated, and relentlessly focused on profit, private equity firms have quietly reshaped the US economy, taking over large chunks of industries ranging from health care to retail—often leaving financial ruin in their wake. T

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iOS beta code includes new references to Apple’s upcoming smart display home product

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-11 09:14:25

Apple was most recently rumored to be readying an unveiling of its upcoming smart display product in the spring, but the device’s dependence on the troubled Siri features seemingly put the launch on hold. Nevertheless, it seems work on the project continues as we have found new assets meant for the device, hidden inside the just-released iOS 18.6 beta. The asset may even reveal the screen resolution of the device … The newly introduced file in the code is found at the path /System/Library/Priv

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Android Automotive now lets apps show your food order status and more on your car’s home screen

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-11 13:15:46

Polestar TL;DR Android Automotive OS is getting a new feature called AppCard, which allows apps to display their most relevant data and functions on the home screen. AppCards can display information like the status of a food order, but the visual styling of these cards is controlled by carmakers, not app developers. It’s unclear whether the feature will require the latest version of Android Automotive, though. When you’re driving, your focus should be on the road, but sometimes you need to g

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This iPhone feature is the only reason I haven’t switched back to a Pixel phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-11 22:30:53

Ryan Haines / Android Authority I often find myself shuffling between phones — sometimes as frequently as switching handsets every week. And I make sure to replicate my home screen layout on each Android phone so that I don’t feel unfamiliar when switching and my muscle memory doesn’t act up either. But every single one of those Android phones teases my inner urge to have everything look visually organized. When you have a bunch of widgets — all different shapes and sizes — plastered across mu

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Not Quite Free But Close, This 15″ Portable Monitor Is on Sale at Amazon Like It’s Black Friday

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-12 17:29:25

If you’ve ever felt frustrated by the cramped screen of your laptop, you’re not alone. Many of us dream of a second display to boost productivity, organize tasks or simply enjoy more screen real estate. The Arzopa 15-inch Full HD portable monitor is the answer you’ve been looking for: An ultra-slim, lightweight monitor that’s easy to slip into your bag and that’s at least as large (if not larger) than your current laptop screen. What’s more, Amazon is currently offering it at an all-time low: T

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I replaced my monitor with a 34-inch ultrawide OLED for a week - here's my buying advice

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-12 21:01:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Alienware 34 240Hz QD-OLED Gaming Monitor retails for $800 It is a large, 34-inch curved gaming monitor with impressive visual output and an immersive design Be aware that this display does not come with internal speakers. View now at Dell View now at Amazon more buying choices For the longest time, I considered curved monitors to be nothing more than a gimmick like 3D TVs (remember those?). But over the years and through personal experience, I've learned that these

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iOS 26 SDK offers strongest hint yet at a foldable iPhone

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-13 17:19:01

Apple’s WWDC sessions usually offer a mix of developer guidance and subtle hardware tea leaves. And last week, one passing comment during the explanation of an SDK change caught attention for what it might suggest about a particular future device. In a session called “Make your UIKit app more flexible,” Apple confirmed that starting with the iOS 26 SDK, apps will no longer be automatically letterboxed or scaled on new screen sizes when running on future hardware. Historically, when Apple intro

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Nintendo Switch 2 survives over 50 hammer blows in brutal durability test

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-13 21:03:00

What just happened? While many new Nintendo Switch 2 owners are handling their consoles with extreme care, fearful that a single accident could spell disaster for the prized device, JerryRigEverything's Zack Nelson took a very different approach. In a recent video, Nelson subjected the handheld to a series of punishing durability tests, pushing the limits of Nintendo's latest hardware to see just how much abuse it could withstand. The centerpiece of Nelson's test was a dramatic sequence in whic

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5 laptops, 1 charger: UGREEN’s latest GaN charger is built for a whole household of power users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-13 21:00:11

UGREEN TL;DR UGREEN has launched the Nexode 500W Desktop Charger, which it claims is the most powerful GaN charger in the world. It supports 240W on a single USB-C port and can charge five laptops and a phone simultaneously. The $249.99 charger features adaptive power distribution, wide protocol support, and real-time heat monitoring. UGREEN has announced the Nexode 500W Desktop Charger, a six-port desktop charger that it claims is the most powerful GaN charger in the world. With a total out

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Forget Anker, UGREEN 4-Port USB-C Charger Drops to Almost Free and Has the Amazon’s Choice Badge

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-13 21:10:05

Do ever find your different devices fighting for that one available outlet? It’s annoying having to make the tough call to which you’ll plug in, your phone or your laptop. You can connect one and then go plug in the other into a different outlet I suppose, but then it’s all the way on the other side of the room sometimes. Utterly useless. Get yourself a solid wall charger block that can handle all your devices at once. The UGREEN 65W USB-C charger has multiple ports to plug into and can recharge

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I changed 8 settings on my Motorola phone for an instant battery boost

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-09-14 05:30:19

Cesar Cadenas/ZDNET Google's Pixel phones aren't the only ones with battery-saving secrets to explore. Motorola offers almost as many features inside its menus. After three weeks with the Moto Razr Ultra and separately, the Moto G Stylus 2025, I discovered a handful of tweaks hiding in plain sight that you'll likely find on your Motorola device if you know where to look. 1. Battery Saver keeps the lights on when your gauge hits the red Jason Howell/ZDNET Battery anxiety is the worst, and Bat

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Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 12:09:51

Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL 14 Jun 2025 on Peter Vernigorov’s blog A couple months ago I noticed that LinkedIn now has a few simple games. They’re not much to write home about, but I really enjoy playing Queens. This week I saw two posts about solving the Queens game programmatically. Both were quite interesting to me, so I thought this was a good opportunity to also solve the game in my favourite language - APL - and share my experience. Having been using APL for Advent of Code, I wante

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Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, a Failure for the Climate

news.ycombinator.com Georgina Gustin 2025-09-14 02:02:22

The American Midwest is home to some of the richest, most productive farmland in the world, enabling its transformation into a vast corn- and soy-producing machine—a conversion spurred largely by decades-long policies that support the production of biofuels. But a new report takes a big swing at the ethanol orthodoxy of American agriculture, criticizing the industry for causing economic and social imbalances across rural communities and saying that the expansion of biofuels will increase greenh

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Liquid Glass, New Photos App and All the Other iOS 26 Features Coming to Your iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 20:06:00

Your iPhone will soon look a lot different when iOS 26 (named for 2026) comes out in the fall, but there's more to see under the frosted glass facade. Announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the latest version of the iPhone's operating system incorporates some features that iPhone owners have watched their Android friends enjoy, plus plenty of other enhancements. For instance, the Camera and Photos apps are gaining long-awaited functional redesigns; the Messages and Phone apps are

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The App Store’s new AI-generated tags are live in the beta

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-13 22:01:49

Apple’s plans to improve App Store discoverability using AI tagging techniques are now available in the developer beta build of iOS 26. However, the tags do not appear on the public App Store as of yet, nor are they informing the App Store Search algorithm on the public store. Image Credits:App Store screenshot (developer beta 1, iOS 26) Of course, with any upcoming App Store update, there’s speculation about how changes will impact an app’s search ranking. A new analysis by app intelligence

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We May Be a Step Closer to Seeing the Original ‘Star Wars’ Again

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-14 17:30:24

Fans can argue day and night about Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy but there’s no denying she pulled an awesome move earlier this week. As previously reported, the British Film Institute had been advertising that it would be screening a very rare print of George Lucas’ Star Wars from its original theatrical run. It’s the version of the film you can basically never see anymore, at least not officially, so Kennedy showed up at the event to change that. “I’m here to make sure you don’t think

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The best budget smartphone you can buy

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-09-14 17:25:26

is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget nerd — then you can probably think of more worthwhile ways t

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Should you upgrade to an ultrawide monitor? I tested this OLED model and can't go back

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-15 09:30:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Alienware 34 240Hz QD-OLED Gaming Monitor retails for $800 It is a large, 34-inch curved gaming monitor with impressive visual output and an immersive design Be aware that this display does not come with internal speakers. View now at Dell View now at Amazon more buying choices For the longest time, I considered curved monitors to be nothing more than a gimmick like 3D TVs (remember those?). But over the years and through personal experience, I've learned that these

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33 Best Gifts for Teens (2025), Approved by Our Kids

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-09-15 12:39:00

Teenagers are intimidating. They speak their own language, blurt out confusing jokes, and somehow have always already seen the TikToks you send them. It can be hard to keep up with the absolute coolest kids around, and that's especially true when it comes to holiday gift-giving. For the past few years, we've informally polled some of the terrifying supercool teens in our lives to find out what presents they really want. Everything in this list is teen-approved. These gift ideas are not one-size-

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9 Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-09-15 13:30:00

A 2-in-1 is a laptop that can go from a standard clamshell laptop configuration to a tablet setup. Over the years, there are really two types of designs that fall into this category: the convertible 2-in-1 laptop and the detachable tablet. Laptops with rotating displays—also called convertibles—use a 360-degree hinge that can position the screen flat, in “tent” mode, or flush against the underside of the laptop. Think of this as a touchscreen clamshell laptop with a fancy hinge. The flexibility

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I changed 8 settings on my Motorola phone to significantly improve the battery life

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-09-15 21:13:39

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google's Pixel phones aren't the only ones with battery-saving secrets to explore. Motorola offers almost as many features inside its menus. After three weeks with the Moto Razr Ultra and separately, the Moto G Stylus 2025, I discovered a handful of tweaks hiding in plain sight that you'll likely find on your Motorola device if you know where to look. 1. Battery Saver keeps the lights on when your gauge hits the red Jason Howell/ZDNET Battery anxiety is the worst, and Battery

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It's About Darn Time: Apple Will Finally Screen Your Calls and Messages

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-16 03:15:02

There's one big feature I'm looking forward to in iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and MacOS Tahoe 26, and it's one that Apple should have added ages ago: call and text screening. It could do more than keep me from talking to strangers -- it could keep me safe from scammers looking to steal my information or my identity. Similar to features from Google and Samsung, Apple's Call Screening vets unknown callers by checking what they want before sending them your way. The company announced the capability at its W

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Emulating an iPhone in QEMU (Part 2)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 14:52:12

What's the plan? At the end of our previous blog post, we got PreBoard to show its UI. But we had no idea if getting SpringBoard to work would even be possible, since we didn’t have SEP emulation. Still, we wanted to see how far we could get without it. Before SpringBoard could show anything, we had plenty of issues to fix. Although the backboardd and SpringBoard processes were starting and stable, they were stuck in different places. Our strategy was to go through system logs, find suspiciou

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Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 01:05:12

Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure You're happily working away, fingers flying, deep in flow, and suddenly, boink, your session has expired. You sigh, re-enter your password (again), complete an MFA challenge (again), maybe approve an email notification (again), and finally — access restored. Until next time. This wasn't so bad when it was just passwords; we all got pretty fast at retyping our passwords. But all those MFA challenges really slow us down. And MFA fatigue attacks, a gro

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All the Android features Apple announced at WWDC

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-09-17 01:00:00

is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Apple announcing Android features years after Google shipped them is a tale as old as time, but that doesn’t make it any less fun to point out whenever it happens. This year’s WWDC felt especially Android-y — not helped by Siri essentially sitting this year’s announcements out while Apple put its new Liquid Glass design language

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Change These 7 Nintendo Switch 2 Settings Before You Play Another Game

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 04:55:24

Fans are questioning why the brightness looks off on the Nintendo Switch 2 and getting frustrated with the functions of the A and B buttons. Fortunately, these are easily tweaked in the Settings menu, but they're not easily found. Since the Switch 2 has been out for only a week, a lot of people are still exploring all that it can do while enjoying their new portable gaming machine. It's understandable to just rip the package open and start playing, but to get the most out of the Switch successor

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Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 13:18:01

June 12, 2025 Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT For sure easier than solving it in SAT! No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet, which is why this newsletter is both late and short. Solving LinkedIn Queens in SMT The article Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused claims that SAT solvers are "criminally underused by the industry". A while back on the newsletter I asked "why": how come they're so powerful and yet nobody uses them?

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4 Best Smart Glasses (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Amazon Clearing Out Smart TVs, This 42″ Full HD Model Sold for Peanuts Before Prime Day

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iOS beta code includes new references to Apple’s upcoming smart display home product

Android Automotive now lets apps show your food order status and more on your car’s home screen

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Nintendo Switch 2 survives over 50 hammer blows in brutal durability test

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I changed 8 settings on my Motorola phone for an instant battery boost

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Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure

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Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT

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