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As Apple pursues AI, spare a thought for the poor HomePod

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 17:32:50

When the video kicking off Apple's "Awe dropping" event began yesterday, I was pleased to see a HomePod in the opening shot. I hadn't given any thought to Apple's beleaguered smart home speaker in ages, so I was all set for Tim Cook and crew to deliver an actual surprise and reveal new stuff for HomePod. When the entire presentation then passed without another peep about the product, I was disappointed, but resigned. HomePod has always been behind the curve. When smart speakers first came on th

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 11, #353

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 15:49:00

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 has a zinger of a purple category. How good are you at anagrams? If you can look at words and quickly see how to scramble their letters into another word, you've got this puzzle! If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answ

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Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 02:29:04

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has delayed releasing the source code for Android 16 QPR1, worrying custom ROM developers who rely on timely AOSP (Android Open Source Project) updates. While Google typically publishes source code within 48 hours of a new release, it has been a week, breaking a long-standing precedent for the community. Google confirmed the code is coming “in the coming weeks,” but the situation has reignited concerns about the company’s commitment to open-sour

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SpaceX Targets an Orbital Starship Flight with a Next-Gen Vehicle in 2026

wired.com Stephen Clark 2025-10-06 09:30:00

It has been two weeks since SpaceX’s last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society’s Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX’s launch pad in Starbase, Te

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Spotify Lossless ‘rolling out gradually’ four years after Apple Music upgraded entire library

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-06 17:54:12

In the four years since Apple Music upgraded its entire music catalog to lossless overnight, Spotify has been just around the corner from catching up. Starting today, Spotify is taking the very first steps toward making that actually happen. Premium subscribers will receive a push notification from the Spotify app when lossless support becomes available. So what took so long? Here’s what Spotify says. “The wait is finally over; we’re so excited lossless sound is rolling out to Premium subscrib

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Starship to Deliver 100 Tons to Orbit by 2026, Musk Claims

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-06 17:05:41

Starship finally broke a losing streak of back-to-back flops, acing its 10th suborbital flight last month. Following the rocket’s success, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is now confident that the massive vehicle will begin flying payloads to space in 2026. During an interview with the All-In Podcast, Musk explained how an upgraded version of Starship will reach orbit by next year and demonstrate full reusability of the Super Heavy booster and its upper stage. “Unless we have some very major s

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Perseverance Rover Finds Potential Sign of Ancient Life in Martian Rock

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-06 17:37:21

Today, NASA officials unveiled intriguing new findings from “Sapphire Canyon,” the 25th geological sample collected by the Perseverance Mars rover. This rock core has captivated scientists ever since Perseverance extracted it in July 2024, as it may help them determine if microbial life ever existed on the Red Planet. Now, NASA has revealed that the initial analysis of the Sapphire Canyon sample could not rule out a biological origin for its distinctive features. “This very well could be the cl

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Evernote and WeTransfer owner Bending Spoons is set to buy Vimeo for $1.38 billion

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 21:56:02

Vimeo is set to get a new owner. Bending Spoons — the parent of Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup and fellow video streaming platform Brightcove — plans to take the company into private ownership in an all-cash, $1.38 billion deal. Stockholders will receive $7.85 per share, quite a bit more than the $4.82 Vimeo closed at on Tuesday (the price jumped significantly after the announcement, of course). Vimeo's directors unanimously approved the takeover. The acquisition is expected to close by the end o

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Amazon Looks Like It's Making Its Own Display-Enabled Smart Glasses

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 20:44:00

New smart glasses are expected soon from Meta, and Google will have some next year. Now Amazon may be entering the race with display-enabled smart glasses of its own, a possible stepping stone to augmented reality glasses further down the road. The report comes from The Information, via reporters who have a strong track record of correctly spotting emerging headsets and glasses. According to the latest story, Amazon's display-enabled glasses could work like updated versions of the Echo Frame au

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Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 billion

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-06 21:22:04

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. Vimeo is getting bought up by Bending Spoons, a European software company that has amassed a growing portfolio of businesses, including Evernote, WeTransfer, and Meetup. Bending Spoons will pay $1.38 billion to acquire the video hosting platform, and it expects

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Lossless Audio Finally Arrives for Spotify Premium Subscribers. Here's How to Enable It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 00:51:50

Lossless audio, a format that Spotify says has been much-requested by subscribers over the years, is finally arriving on the streaming service. In a post, the company says that 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC audio will now be an option for premium subscribers in select markets "across nearly every song available in Spotify." Subscribers will have the option to adjust music quality as Low, Normal, High, Very High and now Lossless, with the option to see how much data each tier requires. In addition to wo

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Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-07 01:09:49

Video platform Vimeo announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons, one of Europe’s largest mobile app developers, in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $1.38 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Vimeo will be delisted from exchanges once the deal closes. The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as Marc

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Spotify lossless streaming is finally here and it's included with a Premium plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:10:09

Stop me if you've heard this one before: over a half-decade of rumors, infrequent teases and affirmations that something is on the way, only for fans to impatiently bide their time and the thing to eventually arrive with very little advance warning. No, I'm not talking about Hollow Knight: Silksong this time. Spotify is finally rolling out a lossless option that offers higher-quality music streaming. Best of all, the company is offering it to Premium members at no extra charge. You'll get a not

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Spotify's long-awaited lossless music is finally here - how to enable it today

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-07 05:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lossless audio is coming to Spotify. Lossless audio offers a more accurate and dynamic sound. The feature is slowly rolling out to all users with a paid plan. In 2021, Spotify teased the idea of a high-fidelity tier (hi-fi tier) that would offer lossless audio quality. Unfortunately, licensing issues caused the plan to be put on the back burner. Also: This new Spotify feature almost ma

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Rendezvous Robotics exits stealth with $3M to build reconfigurable space infrastructure

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-07 05:00:00

For decades, engineers designing space structures have been constrained by the rocket fairing: only hardware that can be folded up to fit inside can go to orbit. This makes in-space assembly time intensive and expensive. The International Space Station, the largest single object humanity has built in space, was assembled over dozens of launches and cost over $100 billion. And, of course, there is no way to modify or alter the structure once it has been assembled. Rendezvous Robotics wants to c

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YouTube Music didn’t learn from Spotify’s mistake, tries to paywall lyrics

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 16:02:29

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music is experimenting with paywalling lyrics for its free users. The company is limiting the number of free lyrics views before prompting users to upgrade to a Premium account. This move is similar to what Spotify did, a change it eventually reversed after user backlash. Spotify and YouTube Music are reasonably competitive in their features, with each service having some nice extras. Spotify Connect is a lifesaver if you have multiple devices, wh

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Spotify finally rolls out Lossless audio — here’s how to turn it on

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 18:36:50

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify’s long-awaited lossless audio tier is now gradually rolling out to Premium subscribers. The feature, simply called Lossless, streams in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC. It is recommended to stream lossless music on Wi-Fi using either wired headphones or speakers on a non-Bluetooth connection. Spotify announced its “HiFi” lossless tier in February 2021, but the feature never arrived — until now. Literally years after the first announcement, Spotify is

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These Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Snailfish Just Became Our Latest Obsession

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-07 16:00:26

The deep sea is home to some of the weirdest creatures on Earth, from ghostly elder fish to carnivorous harp sponges. Sometimes, scientists discover more humble creatures that are so tiny that they go unnoticed until new technology brings them into view. Such efforts rarely disappoint. Using an underwater robot camera, researchers discovered three new species of deep-sea snailfish: one bumpy, one dark, and one sleek. In a new paper published in Ichthyology and Herpetology, researchers explain h

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US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing

wired.com Vas Panagiotopoulos 2025-10-07 18:00:00

The United States has emerged as the largest investor in commercial spyware—a global industry that has enabled the covert surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, diplomats, and others, posing grave threats to human rights and national security. In 2024, 20 new US-based spyware investors were identified, bringing the total number of American backers of this technology to 31. This growth has largely outpaced other major investing countries such as Israel, Italy, and the

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Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-07 18:00:00

It’s been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio. Rumors have been circulating about a high-fidelity offering since as early as 2017. In 2021, Spotify claimed it was “coming later this year.” And by May of 2024 it was “almost ready.” So, when rumors started picking up again in June of this year, they were met with skepticism, especially amid announcements over the launch of features nobody was asking for, like direct messaging. Well, it’s here. For real. And there’s so

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Spigen’s all-new iPhone 17 cases show you don’t have to sacrifice style for protection

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-10-08 05:00:00

It’s September, and that means the new iPhones are now out! Whether you’re opting for the iPhone Air, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, or iPhone 17 Pro Max, Spigen is ready with all-new cases that make the new models—and their refreshed iPhone design—look even better. If all you want to do is protect your iPhone, there are many cases to choose from. What makes Spigen stand out is its heritage as a design company, seeking not just to keep your iPhone safe, but to ensure it looks its absolute best. The

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E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens

news.ycombinator.com Matthew S. Smith 2025-10-08 01:57:35

E-paper displays are prized for their readability and low power use, but they’ve long been dismissed as too slow for everyday computing. Modos, a two-person startup with open-hardware roots, thinks it has cracked part of that problem with a development kit capable of driving an e-paper display at refresh rates up to a record 75 hertz. The Modos Paper Monitor and Dev Kit, now available for crowdfunding on Crowd Supply, combines standard e-paper panels with an open source FPGA-based display cont

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Apple launches iPhone 17 with a 120 Hz display

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-08 01:33:56

Apple launched the iPhone 17 series today at its “awe-dropping” event, with the base model getting an upgraded display. The iPhone 17 has a slightly bigger screen at 6.3 inches as compared to the 6.1-inch screen of the iPhone 16. The display is getting an upgrade with ProMotion, which is being used in the base model for the first time. It supports a 120 Hz refresh rate and dynamically switches to different refresh rates using the LTPO (low-temperature polycrystalline oxide) tech. This display

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Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-08 05:44:20

SpaceX just fired off one of the biggest shots yet in the spectrum wars, agreeing to pay $17 billion to take over a massive chunk of wireless airwaves from EchoStar for Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell services. The deal is the most aggressive signal yet that SpaceX wants to rule the satellite-to-phone market. The significance of the sale, which sees SpaceX paying a mix of $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock, centers around a finite resource: spectrum. Spectrum refers to the range o

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Apple Watch Ultra 3 gains best display feature from Series 10 and Series 11

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-08 09:15:07

The biggest Apple Watch Ultra 3 display news is that it has the biggest Ultra display yet. However, there’s a smaller Ultra 3 display change that is a welcome arrival too. Last year, Apple Watch Series 10 introduced a new display feature that required updated hardware. For the first time, Apple Watch faces could display ticking seconds in always-on mode. Apple confirms this change: LTPO3 is also more power efficient, enabling a faster refresh rate when Apple Watch Ultra 3 is in always-on mode,

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Enter the Claustrophobic Chaos of a Derelict Spaceship in This Sci-Fi Flick, Streaming Free on Tubi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 08:30:03

Not all horror movies are made equal, and sci-fi horror is easily my favorite sub-genre, with he vastness of space pressing in from every side, creatures engineered by science gone wrong, and derelict spaceships housing unspeakable horrors. The Alien franchise might be the most well-known movies of the genre, but it isn't the only one worth watching. One of my favorites is Pandorum. Released in 2009, it's a claustrophobic trip into space where a mechanic wakes up on a colony ship to see that th

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E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights

news.ycombinator.com Matthew S. Smith 2025-10-08 11:57:35

E-paper displays are prized for their readability and low power use, but they’ve long been dismissed as too slow for everyday computing. Modos, a two-person startup with open-hardware roots, thinks it has cracked part of that problem with a development kit capable of driving an e-paper display at refresh rates up to a record 75 hertz. The Modos Paper Monitor and Dev Kit, now available for crowdfunding on Crowd Supply, combines standard e-paper panels with an open source FPGA-based display cont

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visionOS 26 available from Sep 15, with spatial widgets, new Personas and more

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-08 17:16:55

Apple has announced that visionOS 26 will be available to Vision Pro users from Monday, September 15. The latest version of the operating system will offer a raft of new features, with spatial widgets and far more realistic personas topping the list … Spatial widgets allow you to position things like clock, weather, music player, and photos in a fixed space in your environment, including the ability to embed them into walls. There’s also a brand new widgets app to find additional spatial widge

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SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 17:43:02

It has been two weeks since SpaceX's last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time the ship heads into space. Bill Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX executive in charge of build and flight reliability, presented the findings Monday at the American Astronautical Society's Glenn Space Technology Symposium in Cleveland. The rocket lifted off on August 26 from SpaceX's launch pad in Starbase, Te

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iPhone Air hands-on

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-10-08 17:24:40

Apple just announced the iPhone Air, which, as you might guess by the name, is something Apple is marketing as extremely thin and light. It’s 5.6mm thin and has a ProMotion display, one camera, Apple’s Ceramic Shield 2 glass on both sides, and an A19 Pro chip. But what does it actually feel like to hold? I (Allison) got to actually pick up the phone at Apple’s launch event today, and it sure is light. The profile is as slim as it looks in photos, and it has more rounded edges reminiscent of pre

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Lossless Audio Finally Arrives for Spotify Premium Subscribers. Here's How to Enable It

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These Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Snailfish Just Became Our Latest Obsession

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E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights

visionOS 26 available from Sep 15, with spatial widgets, new Personas and more

SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”

iPhone Air hands-on

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