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Android UI finally beats iOS in the looks department - and I'm stunned

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google released the latest Android feature drop. Material 3 Expressive has finally arrived, and it's brilliant. You get more customizations, better animations, and performance. When the latest Android feature drop hit my Pixel 9 Pro a few days ago, I was stunned. There it was -- everything I've been asking of Google. The company has finally given the Android interface a much-needed facelift. Als

The Culture novels as a dystopia

A couple of people have mentioned to me: “we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence – utopias like the Culture novels”. And they’re right, AI can be tremendously positive, and some beacons lit into the future could help make that come around. But one of my hobbies is “oppositional reading” – deliberately interpreting novels counter to the obvious / intended reading. And it’s not so clear to me that the Culture is all it is cracked up to be. Most of the novels take the pers

I Was Right Yet Again: iOS 26 Goes Live Today

Apple announced iOS 26 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but it said at the time it would release the update to the general public this fall. So I looked at past Apple events in September and earlier iOS releases to predict when the company would release iOS 26. And I was right. Apple announced that iOS 26 will be released as a free update Monday. Apple usually releases updates around 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET), so that means your iPhone can get new features like a Liquid Glass design

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AirPods Pro 3 Review: Skating to Where the Puck Is Going, Not Where It Has Been

2025 Almost three years after Apple introduced the original AirPods Pro 2 (updated with USB-C in 2023) with category-defining sound quality and active noise cancellation (ANC), I can safely say that just about every company making ANC wireless earbuds has caught up or surpassed them, and often with buds that are sold for less than $250. Basic wireless earbuds features—good audio, good ANC, and good battery life—are table stakes, and each of these is improved on AirPods Pro 3. Apple’s third-gen

Amazon announces its fall hardware event

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon has sent out invitations to its annual fall hardware event, where it traditionally launches a slew of new products, including Echo smart speakers, Fire TV devices, Kindles, and sometimes dozens of other gadgets. The event is sc

I unplugged these 7 household devices and saved $200 a year in electricity

Adela Stefan / 500px / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Unplugging idle devices can save on power bills. TVs, consoles, coffee makers, and mini-fridges are top culprits. Small daily changes help cut energy waste and lower electricity costs. With costs climbing across the US, energy prices stand out -made worse by record-breaking summer heat and recent waves scorching multiple states. Having endured several of them this season, I'm alw

ExpressVPN review: One of the fastest VPNs we've tested

June Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways ExpressVPN The servers are optimized for global geo-restrictions and fast bandwidth connections without giving up safety. Slight connection delays are noticeable when switching servers, and the VPN is still relatively overpriced. ExpressVPN is one of the best virtual private networks (VPNs) to ever exist. I've reviewed it three times in less than a year, and each time it's inching closer to NordVPN, another terrific service. Now that the provider has rev

Don’t Expect One ‘Penguin’ Star to Appear in ‘The Batman, Part II’

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre could head to TV with an assist from Glen Powell. Filming has wrapped on Practical Magic 2. Plus, could even more be on the way from Matt Reeves’ Batman universe? To me, my spoilers! Clayface In response to a fan on Threads (via Comic Book), James Gunn stated the decision to decorate the set of Clayface with stickers, graffiti, and fliers referencing Robert Pattinson’s Batman movie “never came across [his] desk” and was likely done over his head. Although the trash

Amazon announces fall hardware event

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon has sent out invitations to its annual fall hardware event, where it traditionally launches a slew of new products, including Echo smart speakers, Fire TV devices, Kindles, and sometimes dozens of other gadgets. The event is sc

AirPods Pro 3 review: The best get even better

AirPods Pro are the quintessential Apple product, combining excellent design and functionality with superb ecosystem integration. Last week, Apple introduced AirPods Pro 3, the second major revision since the product line debuted in 2019. I’ve been using AirPods Pro 3 since that announcement, and they feel like a turning point. Here’s why. Comfort and fit Apple says AirPods Pro 3 feature a new in-ear design that “fits more people than ever.” The company says it utilized “over 10,000 ear scans

Microsoft says Windows September updates break SMBv1 shares

​Microsoft has confirmed that the September 2025 Windows security updates are causing connection issues to Server Message Block (SMB) v1 shares. The list of platforms affected by this known issue is quite extensive, as it includes both client (Windows 11 24H2/23H2/22H2 and Windows 10 22H2/21H2) and server (Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server 2022) platforms. In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, Microsoft said this known issue affects those connecting to SMBv1 shares over the NetBIOS

The Culture Novels as a Dystopia

A couple of people have mentioned to me: “we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence – utopias like the Culture novels”. And they’re right, AI can be tremendously positive, and some beacons lit into the future could help make that come around. But one of my hobbies is “oppositional reading” – deliberately interpreting novels counter to the obvious / intended reading. And it’s not so clear to me that the Culture is all it is cracked up to be. Most of the novels take the pers

Amish Men Live Longer

Articles Amish Men Live Longer Abstract This study examines differences in the longevity of Amish men compared to the men within the general population of the United States. Data for this analysis comes from the 1965 Ohio Amish directory, specifically the birth and death dates of men from the Holmes County settlement. Amish men’s longevity is compared with the white men of Ohio based on life tables published online by the Social Security Administration. Amish men live an average of five years

China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law after preliminary probe

China is one of Nvidia's largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. China's market regulator on Monday said that Nvidia violated the country's anti-monopoly law, according to a preliminary probe, adding that Beijing would continue its investigation into the U.S. chip giant. Shares of Nvidia were down around 2% in premarket trading. Late last year, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) opened an investigation into Nvidia

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions

In a recent 3Blue1Brown video series on transformer models, Grant Sanderson posed a fascinating question: How can a relatively modest embedding space of 12,288 dimensions (GPT-3) accommodate millions of distinct real-world concepts? The answer lies at the intersection of high-dimensional geometry and a remarkable mathematical result known as the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. While exploring this question, I discovered something unexpected that led to an interesting collaboration with Grant and a

Folks, we have the best π

In the past couple of months, I published a number of articles on recreational math. I did my best to keep them accessible and fun, but my goal was usually to shed light at deeper mathematical truths. For example, the discussion of 0.999… = 1 served as a springboard to highlight some of the subtler properties of real numbers and the different meanings of infinity. Today, I have no agenda. This article exists because I discovered a somewhat obscure paper that says something unexpected and cool.

Decentralized YouTube alternative adds livestream scheduling in new release

PeerTube is a decentralized alternative to YouTube that doesn't believe in harvesting user data and pushing people into echo chambers via a proprietary algorithm. Built on open standards and federation, it lets communities host and share video without depending on a central server. Earlier this year, the project asked for donations to improve its mobile app and help them reach certain funding goals. The developers made it clear that improving the mobile experience was a key priority, and commun

Which NPM package has the largest version number?

Which npm package has the largest version number? I spent way too much time on this I was recently working on a project that uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript. When updating the dependencies in said project, I noticed that the version of that dependency was v3.888.0 . Eight hundred eighty eight. That’s a big number as far as versions go. That got me thinking: I wonder what package in the npm registry has the largest number in its version. It could be a major, minor, or patch version, and it doe

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions

In a recent 3Blue1Brown video series on transformer models, Grant Sanderson posed a fascinating question: How can a relatively modest embedding space of 12,288 dimensions (GPT-3) accommodate millions of distinct real-world concepts? The answer lies at the intersection of high-dimensional geometry and a remarkable mathematical result known as the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. While exploring this question, I discovered something unexpected that led to an interesting collaboration with Grant and a

This key iPhone 17 Pro rumor didn’t come to fruition, but there’s a good reason for it

With iPhone 17 Pro, there was one major rumor that a lot of Apple fans were looking forward to this year: reverse wireless charging. After all, with the new glass window with a centered Apple logo – it looked like a perfect opportunity for this new feature. Our batteries are also larger than ever. Yet, the Apple Event came and went – and there was no reverse wireless charging. While this is certainly disappointing, there’s a good reason for it not arriving, and I’ll delve into that. Magnets ca

My thoughts on renting versus buying

I’ve read numerous articles about renting versus buying and most dive into financial projections while completely missing the bigger picture. In my view, behavioral and emotional factors have a far larger impact on the financial outcomes of renting versus buying than the math. The math can always be made to “work” if you’re willing to adjust what or where you rent or buy. But the real differences aren’t captured in spreadsheets. They come from how people actually make decisions, and how those d

Fukushima insects tested for cognition

In the contaminated area around Fukushima, Japan, scientists are studying the impact of radioactivity on the cognitive abilities of pollinating insects such as honeybees and giant hornets. Bees and hornets are known to have a wide range of cognitive skills, including the ability to recognise colours and navigate in space. However, pollution by substances released into the environment by humans, such as pesticides, can impair their performance. Olivier Armant, from the radionuclide ecology and

You’re a slow thinker. Now what?

I'm not a quick witted person. In fact, I’ve always been worried about my brain’s slow processing time. But recently, I've realised that slow processing time is not as much of an issue as I thought it was. And even if I was wrong about that, I still think I’d do better for myself by leaning into it, instead of spending energy trying to fight it. In this essay, I want to talk about some ways I've been able to skirt around my lack of quick wittedness! To get what I mean by slow processing time,

Models of European metro stations

Alicante Alicante's rapid transit system is called TRAM, which is a train-tram and is operated by FGV, owned by the Valencian regional government. This system has an underground line in the city center, with three stations on it. The layout consists with one or two mezzanines on level -1 and two side or one island platforms at level -2. Luceros and Mercado stations have direct connection with the underground parking lots, which are located above the TRAM tunnel. Amsterdam Metro services in Amst

Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

The present study suggested that the risk of cognitive impairment increased with higher RNT scores among older adults, and the robustness of the finding was confirmed through adjustment for various potential confounding variables. Additionally, individuals aged 60 ~ 79 years, junior high school and above were more prone to suffer from cognitive impairment with a high RNT score. However, the correlation between RNT and cognitive function was not significant in older adults aged 80 to 90 years, or

Google faces its first AI Overviews lawsuit from a major US publisher

Even though Google's AI Overviews were introduced with a comically rocky start, it's about to face a far more serious challenge. Penske Media, the publisher for Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard and others, filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the tech giant illegally powers its AI Overviews feature with content from its sites. Penske claimed in the lawsuit that the AI feature is also "siphoning and discouraging user traffic to PMC's and other publishers' websites," adding that "the revenue

MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984

MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984 This repository contains code, software, and related files developed for the CP/M operating system, created from 1979-1984. It was hosted on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT-MC (Macsyma Consortium) computer and available on the ARPANET. This was a freeware and shareware "archive" maintained by Frank J. Wancho and Keith Petersen. When the Macsyma Consortium was dissolved in 1983, the files were moved to SIMTEL20. The files available in this rep

Watch the Emmy Awards Tonight Without Cable

Hulu Plus Live TV subscribers get access to CBS and will be able to watch the Emmys live or on-demand the following day. Hulu Plus Live TV costs $83 a month for the ad-supported tier, and comes with a three-day free trial and access to Disney Plus and ESPN Plus. $12 more a month for the Premium plan will get you the same, but ad-free Disney Plus and on-demand Hulu. Check out our Hulu Plus Live TV review for more info.

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