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Fun new Apple ad highlights the iPhone’s Camera Control features [Poll]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-18 19:21:18

Apple’s UAE YouTube channel posted an iPhone 16 Pro ad today, promoting the Camera Control button as a great way to snap quick shots. Watch the video below, and answer our poll: Do you use the Camera Control button on your iPhone? ‘Never miss a shot with Camera Control’ The new ad is aptly titled Snap-a-Mole, and it follows a photographer trying to capture a group of quick-moving moles popping in and out of holes in the desert. Throughout the spot, Apple highlights the Camera Control button’s

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Nothing’s Phone 3 Really Goes Full-On Anti-iPhone, Huh?

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-08-18 19:25:41

After a seemingly never-ending drip of leaks and teases, Nothing’s Phone 3 is finally here, along with what’s shaping up to be a divisive new aesthetic. The eye-catching Android phone, which was unveiled during a London launch event on Tuesday, will cost $799 and is being billed as the company’s “first true flagship.” To sell its premium package, Nothing is leaning into a new triple camera system, a refreshed design, and a circular Glyph “Matrix” display that, honestly, looks pretty damn fun. L

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I Love the Look of the Nothing Phone 3

cnet.com Andrew Lanxon 2025-08-18 15:30:00

UK-based phone-maker Nothing says that its new Phone 3 is its first "true flagship," featuring a high-end processor and a potentially powerful triple-camera array. I've been hands-on with the phone at its London launch event, and I'm quite impressed so far. The phone goes on sale in the US, the UK and Europe next week for $799 or £799. Scroll through this gallery to see more of this unusual Android phone.

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X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-18 23:26:12

The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part of this fact-checking program can contribute comments that add context to certain posts, which are then checked by other users before they appear attached to a post. A Community Note may appear, for example, on a post of an AI-generated video that is not clear abou

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I Helped 4 Local Businesses Use Adobe Express' AI Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-19 06:14:52

Over the past few years, I've found tremendous joy in helping local businesses here in Worcester, MA learn more about technology and AI. It's the same work I do in my full-time job as a content creator, but I love the in-person collaborative aspect. I started my business Feisworld Media first as a podcaster, then later I produced a documentary on Amazon Prime and then launched a YouTube channel in 2019. But it's still the in-person sharing that gets me excited about helping others. Since Adobe

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Sonos is offering a refurbished Era 100 for just $119

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-08-19 07:50:05

Earlier this year, Sonos permanently dropped the price of its Era 100 speaker to $199, making it more affordable for people looking to build a multiroom wireless speaker setup. Now, the small-but-mighty speaker is even cheaper to kick off summer. Sonos is offering the refurbished Era 100 for just $119 ($40 off), the lowest price we’ve seen on the smart speaker. Sonos Certified Refurbished products are thoroughly inspected, cleaned, and tested by the brand’s in-house team, and you get the same on

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Nothing Phone 3 hands-on: A tiny, playful dot-matrix screen in the company's most expensive phone yet

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-19 11:30:19

With the third generation of its smartphone series, Nothing made the unusual move to launch the cheaper ‘a’ line first, unveiling the Phone 3a and 3a Pro in March . Now, it’s time for its latest flagship. The Nothing Phone 3, starting at $799 (with a $899 option with 16GB of RAM) goes up against giants like the Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 — a competitive slice of the smartphone world. Once again, though, there’s nothing in the market that quite resembles a Nothing, as the company attem

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I used a $170 thermal camera to check my GCFI breaker - here's why this one's worth it

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-19 11:23:24

ZDNET's key takeaways HSFTools' HF96V thermal camera is available now for $180. It has a broad temperature range and a high level of accuracy with an eight-hour battery life. It has an IP54 rating for dust and water-resistance, but it's not waterproof. $189.99 at Amazon For a limited time, the HSFTools HF96V thermal camera is $40 off on Amazon, bringing it down to $180. Regular readers will know that I am a little obsessed with thermal imaging cameras. I regularly use them built into smartph

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"Indie Rock Band" That's Clearly Using AI Claims That "We Never Use AI"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-19 14:50:42

An "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown, which is marketing its music with AI-generated pictures of members that don't appear to exist, is now claiming that "we never use AI." After being publicly accused of being the fabrication of AI, an "official" X account for the band is now seemingly attempting to control the narrative, or at least to gin up a few more streams. "Absolutely crazy that so-called 'journalists' keep pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is 'AI-gene

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Poll: Do you like AI music?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-19 15:22:26

Like a modern version of the tree-falling-in-the-woods conundrum, AI is giving us new philosophical questions. For example, if AI music sounds genuine, is it okay to enjoy it? This debate has gained momentum recently, as a new band called The Velvet Sundown just reached over 500,000 listens on Spotify. The problem is that they don’t actually exist. Everything about them — from their echoey, classic rock-inspired tracks to their Instagram pictures — appears to be AI-generated. I’ve been listeni

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One UI 8’s Now Brief will make sure you don’t miss a birthday again

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-19 11:17:15

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Now Brief in the latest One UI 8 beta displays birthday reminders and also lets you create an AI-generated birthday card. The birthday card is generated with a prompt and can be created in one of six art styles. This is the latest addition to Now Brief, and we’re expecting plenty more by the time stable One UI 8 is released. Samsung’s Now Brief feature gives users a summary of relevant information several times a day. We know Samsung is working on more ty

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First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution

news.ycombinator.com Guyren Howe 2025-08-17 05:48:11

TL;DR: First-class models with branching and merging capabilities represent an almost entirely unused enormous productivity and expressiveness unlock in programming and computer systems. The Current State: Well-Designed Systems, Constrained Users Imagine you’re building an accounting system from scratch. You’d design it properly: a normalized database schema, algebraically defined operations for debits and credits, account reconciliation, and comparison functions. You’d implement data-only, in

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Stop Buying Expensive Phones. I Tested This $400 Samsung Galaxy That Nails the Basics

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 02:00:19

CNET's key takeaways The Galaxy A36 is one of Samsung's three midrange phones and costs $400. The phone packs a generous 5,000-mAh battery, as well as 45-watt fast charging. The A36 has a slightly larger display than its predecessor, which is nice and bright, even in direct sunlight. A 50-megapixel main camera captures punchy photos, especially in portrait mode. The camera compromises on sharpness and detail. The A36's bezels are pretty noticeable. There's also a slight lag when launching

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Insta360 X5 360 Camera Review: Capture the World in One Shot

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 16:00:10

8.9 / 10 SCORE Insta360 X5 Pros Excellent image quality Easy to use Replaceable lenses Cons Expensive X4 is cheaper and almost as good Insta360's X5 is easily the best 360 camera ever (for consumers, at least). It's even easier to use than previous models, has big (for an action cam) image sensors for better dynamic range and low-light performance, and best of all, it has user-replaceable lenses. It's also quite expensive. Its photo and video resolutions aren't any higher than its predeces

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How and Where to Buy Used Camera Gear to Save Money

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 16:00:15

Beware! Buying used camera gear is addictive. Photography can be an expensive hobby and finding out how easy it is to get great gear at a reasonable price only leads to buying even more gear at a "reasonable" price. Trust me, I've done it a lot. Finding the lens or camera you want at a lower price is great, but even better is finding older, discontinued models that can give that retro look with no editing required. While eBay is the obvious answer for finding anything used, that's only one opti

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7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-20 17:00:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I can still remember the moment I switched from Windows to Linux. Back then, I didn't have anyone there to tell me what to expect. It would have been nice to get even a bit of advice from someone with Linux experience in the know to say, "Hey, you'll want to know about this before you start down that path." It would have made things easier. Instead, I took just dove right in, hoping I could figure it all out as I went. The good news: Linux today is n

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Eating Dairy Before Bed Can Give You Nightmares, Study Suggests

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-20 14:00:17

Has a late-night cheese session ever seemed to send you down your own personal Nightmare on Elm Street? You’re probably not alone. Research out today has revealed a link between lactose intolerance and a higher risk of bad dreams. Scientists in Canada conducted the study by surveying college students. People who reported having regular nightmares and poorer sleep in general were also more likely to report having food allergies, including lactose intolerance, they found. The researchers speculat

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Oura Ring 5 wishlist: All the features I want to see

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-20 18:01:57

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority The smart ring arena is evolving quickly, but Oura still sets the pace. Its current-generation ring is polished, feature-packed, and impressively reliable. Yet, no device line is immune to the itch for something more. With new rivals entering the scene and wearables advancing rapidly, now feels like the right time to think about what’s next. The Oura Ring 5 is likely a ways out, but I’m already daydreaming about what the next model might include. A refined de

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Tesla's Robotaxi Program Is Failing Because Elon Musk Made a Foolish Decision Years Ago

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-20 18:51:55

A shortsighted design decision that Elon Musk made more than a decade ago is once again coming back to haunt Tesla. As The Guardian reports, the company's Robotaxi rollout has been a massive bust — due, in at least in part, to Musk's long-ago bet against the light detection and ranging sensors known as lidar, which are hardware that allow cars to "sense" their surroundings far more sensitively than the visual cameras that Tesla is instead using as the inputs for itse self-driving software. Way

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These Rumored iPhone 17 Pro Max Features Make Me Want It Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 18:04:00

I've never been one to track rumors of upcoming iPhone models, even as I've followed Apple's mobile phone adventure from the beginning (yep, I was in the room where it started). Why chase today's speculation when we'll all find out what's coming during the new iPhone announcements in September? But that's the catch, isn't it? September is suddenly not so far away, which means now is the time when people start thinking about fall budgets and whether the iPhone they've been holding onto can make

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11 Bit Studios clarifies its AI use in The Alters after player outcry

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-20 23:00:14

11 Bit Studios has drawn the ire of players for the undisclosed use of artificial intelligence in its recent release, The Alters. The new project from the team behind Frostpunk and This War of Mine is a narratively and thematically interesting take on a science fiction survival game. The project contains a lot of dialogue and written text, and some players discovered in-game copy that appeared to be generated by a large language model. The Steam storefront requires that games disclose when they

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Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 00:21:20

Meta is demanding access to all of your photos, even the ones you haven't uploaded anywhere yet — and it's being incredibly shifty about what it intends to do with them. As The Verge reports, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company refuses to rule out the possibility that it will use your phone's camera roll to train its AI models, and could only provide the assurance that it's not "currently" doing so. If the situation changes in the future, it would be a striking testament to the AI industry's desp

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End of an Era

news.ycombinator.com Chris Crawford 2025-08-21 01:17:11

I recall saying to one of my colleagues at Atari way back in 1982 that I wanted to make a game that would be genuine art. A year later I built a game that was my first experiment in that direction: Gossip. It was a ridiculously simple game in which a player attempted to win favor in a group by calling people and telling them how much you liked or disliked some third party. The underlying concept was that “people like people who like people they like.” For some reason, many players had problems a

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A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-21 03:45:15

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally thought, according to a recent round of radiocarbon dating. Archaeologists unearthed the mammoth-tusk boomerang in Poland’s Oblazowa Cave in the 1990s, and they originally dated it to around 18,000 years old, which made it one of the world’s oldest intact boomerangs. But according to recent analysis by University of Bologna researcher Sahra Talamo and her colleagues,

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"Truly Psychopathic": Concern Grows Over "Therapist" Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 06:55:25

As of April, according to an analysis by the Harvard Business Review, the number one use of AI chatbots is now therapy. The more we learn about what that looks like in practice, the less it sounds like a good idea. That's not entirely surprising: even AI experts remain hazy on exactly how the tech actually works, top companies in the industry still struggle to control their chatbots, and a wave of reporting has found that AI is pushing vulnerable people into severe mental health crises. So it'

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The best midrange smartphone for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-21 11:01:25

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 . A great phone doesn’t need to cost a fortune. In 2025, features once exclusive to high-end devices – big batteries, multi-camera arrays, high refresh rate displays and more – have trickled down to more affordable models. Sure, you’ll still need to buy a flagship smartphone to get the b

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New to Linux? Seven things every beginner should know

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-21 15:16:09

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I can still remember the moment I switched from Windows to Linux. Back then, I didn't have anyone there to tell me what to expect. It would have been nice to get even a bit of advice from someone with Linux experience in the know to say, "Hey, you'll want to know about this before you start down that path." It would have made things easier. Instead, I took just dove right in, hoping I could figure it all out as I went. The good news: Linux today is n

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Insta360’s face-tracking Link 2 webcam is more affordable than ever

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-08-21 19:58:13

The Insta360 Link 2 is more than just a webcam — it’s a smart camera that actively follows your movements whether you’re presenting, streaming, or pacing during a call. It’s also packed with an impressive array of productivity features. And right now, it’s available at a new all-time low of $149.99 ($50 off) at Amazon. The webcam is a modest upgrade over the original Link, which was our favorite 4K webcam when it launched in 2022, boasting all the same impressive features with slight refinement

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Hundreds of Brother printer models have security flaw that can't be patched

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-21 23:54:02

This could allow bad actors to remotely access these devices. A security company has found eight security vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of Brother printer models. The company has released firmware updates to handle seven of these vulnerabilities, but one security flaw cannot be patched. Brother has indicated that it'll fix the remaining issue during the manufacturing process of future printers, which doesn't help current owners. The company recommends that users change the default main

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BLUETTI Portable Power Station With Solar Panel Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday and Last Prime Day

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-08-21 23:10:29

Summer holidays are coming up, and while there will be some people who want to hop on a plane and go abroad, a lot of us prefer the great outdoors. If you do, and you want your camping trips or long days at the beach to be better than ever, then a solar generator can be an incredible investment to help you stay calm, cool, and powered up. See at Amazon There are a few great solar generators on the market, but there’s only one that’s 50% off right now and an incredible steal for those who know

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Latest Tech News

Fun new Apple ad highlights the iPhone’s Camera Control features [Poll]

Nothing’s Phone 3 Really Goes Full-On Anti-iPhone, Huh?

I Love the Look of the Nothing Phone 3

X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

I Helped 4 Local Businesses Use Adobe Express' AI Features

Sonos is offering a refurbished Era 100 for just $119

Nothing Phone 3 hands-on: A tiny, playful dot-matrix screen in the company's most expensive phone yet

I used a $170 thermal camera to check my GCFI breaker - here's why this one's worth it

"Indie Rock Band" That's Clearly Using AI Claims That "We Never Use AI"

Poll: Do you like AI music?

One UI 8’s Now Brief will make sure you don’t miss a birthday again

First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution

Stop Buying Expensive Phones. I Tested This $400 Samsung Galaxy That Nails the Basics

Insta360 X5 360 Camera Review: Capture the World in One Shot

How and Where to Buy Used Camera Gear to Save Money

7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro

Eating Dairy Before Bed Can Give You Nightmares, Study Suggests

Oura Ring 5 wishlist: All the features I want to see

Tesla's Robotaxi Program Is Failing Because Elon Musk Made a Foolish Decision Years Ago

These Rumored iPhone 17 Pro Max Features Make Me Want It Now

11 Bit Studios clarifies its AI use in The Alters after player outcry

Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos

End of an Era

A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

"Truly Psychopathic": Concern Grows Over "Therapist" Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness

The best midrange smartphone for 2025

New to Linux? Seven things every beginner should know

Insta360’s face-tracking Link 2 webcam is more affordable than ever

Hundreds of Brother printer models have security flaw that can't be patched

BLUETTI Portable Power Station With Solar Panel Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday and Last Prime Day

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