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I found the best app for Material 3 Expressive widgets; here’s how to use it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-14 02:00:47

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority Google is implementing a big redesign of Android with Material 3 Expressive. This updated design language will spread across apps and Android itself with the upcoming Android 16 QPR1 update. And despite updating most of its apps, Google is overlooking widgets again with this release, keeping the same old Material You design for several of them, while Apple and other Android OEMs like Samsung have taken widget design more seriously. But if, like me, you’d lik

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Google exec explains what makes Pixel better than Nexus

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-14 03:19:22

TL;DR A Google executive has outlined one specific reason why the Pixel program was better than its Nexus phone initiative. The executive confirmed that multi-year ideas were easier to develop with Pixels as Google wasn’t switching partners each year. He also pointed to Tensor chips as an example of an ambitious, years-long project under the Pixel banner. Google has offered Pixel phones since 2016, featuring an in-house approach to most of these smartphones. Prior to this, the company offered

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The best smart TV VPNs of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-11-14 02:15:18

A virtual private network (VPN) can allow you to access geo-locked content and streaming libraries on your smart TV. As a bonus, and perhaps the main reason I use a VPN on my own TV, is the ability to block ads. My favorites include NordVPN, ExpressVPN, and Surfshark, and I'm certain you can find a VPN that will fit you and your smart TV. When looking for a smart TV VPN, consider factors such as its impact on streaming speed and online connectivity, the availability of native smart TV apps -- w

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I Roamed the Streets of Paris With the New Pixel 10 Pro XL and It Was Magnifique

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 02:00:09

I'm accustomed to testing new phones, but when the opportunity came up to get an advance look at the Google Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL in Paris, I leaped at the chance. I've been using the new features and extensively trying the 10 Pro XL's camera, and so far, I'm pleased with what I'm seeing. If you're expecting a totally new generation of Google Pixel devices with the 10 Pro, you may be disappointed. The Pixel 10 Pro is an evolution of its predecessor rather than a complete overhaul. And that

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Stop Letting Pee Runs Control Your Nights -- Here's How to Fight Back

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 02:00:10

Few things interrupt your sleep more than having to crawl out of a warm bed to use the bathroom. That quick trip can be enough to break up your rest, and once you're awake, falling back asleep isn't always easy. At the same time, you don't want to lie there feeling uncomfortable either. When it happens several times a night, the effects can build up fast. Interrupted sleep often leaves you groggy the next morning and can make it harder to get through the day. If you find yourself waking up to

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What You Missed at Made by Google 2025: Pixel 10, Watch 4, 10 Pro Fold and Everything Announced

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 02:11:03

Months of waiting and sorting through numerous leaks finally paid off on Wednesday, as Google unveiled the Pixel 10 phone lineup at its Made by Google 2025 event. Not only did we finally get details about the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2A, it was all wrapped up in a tech event that was -- dare we admit -- actually fun. Hosted by The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon in a format more like the talk show he's famous for, the tech event includ

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Samsung’s “Micro RGB” TV proves the value of RGB backlights for premium displays

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-14 02:00:29

Samsung provided ground transportation from Brooklyn, New York, to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, so Ars could demo its Micro RGB TV. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, New Jersey—Micro LED is still years away, but the next best thing is taking shape right now. A $30,000 price tag and 114.5-inch diagonal size makes the Samsung "Micro RGB" TV that I demoed this week unattainable for most. But the unique RGB backlight and Micro LED-sized diodes it employs represent a gro

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Rocket Report: Pivotal Starship test on tap, Firefly wants to be big in Japan

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-14 03:00:18

Welcome to Edition 8.07 of the Rocket Report! It's that time again: another test flight of SpaceX's massive Starship vehicle. In this week's report, we have a review of what went wrong on Flight 9 in May and a look at the stakes for the upcoming mission, which are rather high. The flight test is presently scheduled for 6:30 pm local time in Texas (23:30 UTC) on Sunday, and Ars will be on hand to provide in-depth coverage. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss a

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Rumor Replay: iPhone 17 Pro Max exclusive feature, Apple Watch Series 12, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-13 20:42:02

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: iPhone 17 Pro Max’s exclusive feature, Apple Watch Series 12 with Touch ID, TechWoven cases by Apple, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors. iPhone 17 Pro Max’s exclusive camera feature iPhone 17 Pro Max was already expected to have a bigger than usual battery advantage over the smaller Pro model this year. That’s because Apple’s making i

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Perplexity's Comet AI browser could expose your data to attackers - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-14 03:00:20

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Perplexity's Comet browser could expose your private data. An attacker could add commands to the prompt via a malicious website. The AI should treat user data and website data separately. Get more in-depth ZDNET AI coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Agentic AI browsers are a hot new trend in the world of AI. Instead of you having to browse the web yourself to complete specific tasks, you t

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Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 04:25:25

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Furious Fred Durst Knocks Drone Out of Air During Live Concert

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-14 10:13:08

Nu metal icon — and notorious rabble-rouser — Fred Durst has a long history of weird beefs, but this latest altercation is bizarre even for him. In audience-shot videos from a recent show in Istanbul, Turkey, the 55-year-old Limp Bizkit frontman laid the smackdown on a drone whose operator dared to fly it too close to the stage, likely seeking to record unauthorized, up-close footage of the boisterous bandleader. The drone got owned, as Stereogum notes, during a "low-key breakdown" in the midd

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The New Marvel Legends Maximum Series Deadpool Lives Up to Those Descriptors

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-14 11:30:22

Walk into any store with pop culture merchandise, and you’re sure to find something Deadpool. The ultra-popular, potty-mouthed Marvel character is no stranger to all manner of merch from toys and plushes to socks, water bottles, bedsheets, and so much more. Deadpool is, and will continue to be, everywhere. And yet, his new Marvel Legends figure is so good, it still somehow stands head, shoulders, and samurai swords above the rest. Hasbro just revealed the Marvel Legends Maximum Series Deadpool,

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Vivo Vision Mixed-Reality Headset Steps Up to Apple, but Still a Tough Sell

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 09:39:45

Look-alikes of Apple products often pop up in China, and mixed-reality headsets have now joined the party. Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has introduced the Vivo Vision, a headset that mixes AR and VR and bears many similarities to the Apple Vision Pro. The company announced the Vivo Vision Discovery Edition at its 30th anniversary celebration in Dongguan, China, saying it's "the first MR product developed by a smartphone manufacturer in China, positioning Vivo as the first Chinese company to op

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Microsoft is bringing PC gaming apps and stores to its Xbox app on Windows

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-14 11:20:32

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft has started testing another handheld-friendly addition to its Xbox app, allowing PC gamers to quickly install and launch third-party apps like browsers, gaming utilities, and even rival storefronts. A new “My apps” feature is being tested in the Xbox app for Windows 11, and it loo

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Anduril, Blue Origin to study how to transport cargo from orbit to Earth for the Pentagon

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-14 11:11:37

Blue Origin and Anduril have landed new study contracts with the U.S. Air Force to explore how their technology, including rockets, could move military cargo around the world. The contracts under the Air Force’s Rocket Cargo program are relatively small — Blue Origin’s comes in at $1.37 million and Anduril’s at $1 million. But they could be the first steps in revolutionizing how the Pentagon transports cargo. Study contracts like these are also a strong signal as to which players will later c

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New Android parental controls make it easier to manage kids’ devices your way

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-14 16:14:57

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has added a new Parental Controls hub in Android Settings, which is now rolling out in Android 16 QPR2 beta. The hub combines on-device, PIN-protected controls with existing Family Link features. On-device controls are more straightforward for quickly setting limits, while Family Link remains better for remote, multi-device management. Keeping kids safe on their phones can be tricky. Between screen-time battles and ensuring TikTok isn’t being s

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AirPods turn into AirTag in this clever use case

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-14 09:18:06

AirPods aren’t just the best headphones. AirPods can also act like an AirTag, which happened to a North Carolina family traveling internationally when a pickpocketer stole the bag containing their passport and ID. AirPods help track stolen purse in Italy Karis McElroy shared the story on TikTok: Her mother and stepfather were visiting Venice, Italy, when three people crowded around them on the street. Once they made it to their Airbnb, McElroy’s mom discovered her backpack had been unzipped.

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Nonprofit search engine Ecosia offers $0 for control of Chrome

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 16:21:58

Germany-based search engine and browser nonprofit Ecosia is the latest party to make an offer for Google's Chrome. Questions about Chrome's fate have been swirling since the news that the Department of Justice would push for Google to sell the browser after the ruling that the company's search engine business constituted a monopoly. Although Google is planning to appeal the decision, that hasn't stopped other big tech businesses from pitching themselves as potential owners of Chrome. Ecosia's p

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In the long run, LLMs make us dumber

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Post-Author Box-Sizing Border-Box Display Flex Flex-Wrap Wrap .Wp-Block-Post-Author__Byline Font-Size Margin-Bottom Margin-Top Width 2025-11-14 14:10:39

The comfort we get when offloading our cognitive load to LLMs is bad for us. Cognitive load should exist, and if we reduce it too much – if we stop thinking – we can actually unlearn how to think. Kids who always choose the easy route and copy their homework from other students eventually find themselves completely clueless about what’s going on in school. Someone who always lets their spouse handle all the bills and banking may one day be unable to manage even a simple payment on their own. A

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Text.ai (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 16:04:39

Founding Full-Stack Engineer Ready to build the next generation of AI-native consumer experience? Text.ai is a consumer-first AI native company, revolutionizing how people communicate in group chats. We're pioneering an entirely new category of consumer AI products that millions will use daily. We are building the first AI-native communication platform, where every conversation becomes intelligent, collaborative, and effortless. We're reimagining how humans and AI work together from first pri

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Microsoft’s new NFL deal could let you blame Copilot AI for terrible playcalls

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-11-14 15:59:31

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The NFL and Microsoft have extended their arrangement that makes Surface tablets a familiar fixture on gameday sidelines, but naturally, now there’s an AI-powered twist on top. While Tom Brady is no longer actively putting those slates in danger of de

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Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-14 15:02:47

“It’s not absurd, right?” Christian Kroll, CEO of Berlin-based nonprofit search engine Ecosia, says of his company’s unsolicited request to be granted a 10-year “stewardship” of Google’s Chrome browser, instead of forcing Google to sell it to a competitor. His idea is most definitely absurd, but also clever. On Thursday, Ecosia announced it had sent a proposal regarding Chrome to Google and to U.S. Judge Amit Mehta. The judge is expected to rule this month on remedies to his 2024 landmark deci

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A Huge Number of Grok AI Chats Just Leaked, and Their Contents Are So Disturbing That We're Sweating Profusely

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-14 12:08:59

Brace yourselves, because hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's notoriously foul-mouthed Grok chatbot have hit the internet, Forbes reports — and some of them get into absolutely unholy territory. The more than 370,000 chats were made public after users clicked a "share" button that created a link to their chatbot convos, unaware that by doing so, it was allowing them to be indexed by search engines like Google and Bing. Some of them were clearly never meant to see the l

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Colt confirms customer data stolen as Warlock ransomware auctions files

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-14 21:41:07

UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology Services confirms that customer documentation was stolen as Warlock ransomware gang auctions files. The British telecommunications and network services provider previously disclosed it suffered an attack on August 12, but this is the first time they confirmed data had been stolen. "A criminal group has accessed certain files from our systems that may contain information related to our customers and posted the document titles on the dark web,"

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The power of two random choices (2012)

news.ycombinator.com Marc Brooker 2025-11-10 08:49:43

My name is Marc Brooker. I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in machining, welding, cooking and skiing.I'm currently an engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, where I work on databases, serverless, and serverless databases. Before that, I worked on EC2 and EBS.All opinions are my own. The power of two random choices In many large-scale web services, multiple laye

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Karen Gillan Joins the New ‘Highlander’ and Has the Best Reaction to the News

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-14 21:15:22

The cast of the upcoming reimagining of Highlander is just getting better and better. Henry Cavill leads the ensemble that includes Russell Crowe and Dave Bautista, and now we know that Karen Gillan, the genre queen best known for her roles in Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Jumanji franchises, is joining the mix. In a way, it’s a film she was born to be in. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of Gillan’s casting, and she reposted it on X with the comment “Dialect coach can sit t

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How Much Energy Do Your AI Prompts Consume? Google Just Shared Its Gemini Numbers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 18:49:00

The explosion of AI tools worldwide is increasing exponentially, but the companies that make these tools often don't express their environmental impact in detail. Google has just released a technical paper detailing measurements for energy, emissions and water use of its Gemini AI prompts. The impact of a single prompt is, it says, minuscule. According to its methodology for measuring AI's impact, a single prompt's energy consumption is about the equivalent of watching TV for less than 9 second

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Vivo Launches Mixed-Reality Headset, an Apple Vision Pro Competitor

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 20:01:00

Look-alikes of Apple products often pop up in China, and mixed-reality headsets have now joined the party. Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has introduced the Vivo Vision, a headset that mixes AR and VR and bears many similarities to the Apple Vision Pro. The company announced the Vivo Vision Discovery Edition at its 30th anniversary celebration in Dongguan, China, saying it's "the first MR product developed by a smartphone manufacturer in China, positioning Vivo as the first Chinese company to op

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 22, #803

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 21:00:04

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle contained a lot of names, including actor names and movie titles. But classifying them into the right groups was a bit tough. And the purple category was a real puzzler--I explain it at the bottom of the story. Read on for clues and today's C

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