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Plaud upgrades its card-sized AI note-taker with better range

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-15 17:00:00

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. Plaud, the company behind an AI wearable that actually works, is launching an upgraded version of its credit card-sized note-taking device. Just like its Plaud Note predecessor, the Plaud Note Pro uses AI to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations,

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Londoners told to wear headphones on public transit

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-15 22:05:47

You would think certain things would be blindingly obvious, among them “if you are listening to music or a video on your phone on public transit, wear headphones.” But anyone who regularly uses transit services can tell you that this is definitely not the case. London has now decided to take executive action with a PR campaign … I’m not sure exactly what caused it, but at some point a number of years ago, people seemed to switch from holding phones to their ear to make calls, to holding them f

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Labor Day sales include a four-pack of Apple AirTags for $70

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-15 22:30:35

If you're thinking about getting some of Apple's AirTags, now's the time to act — Amazon currently has a four-pack on sale for $70. That's one of the lowest prices we've seen outside the big sales on Black Friday and Prime Day. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow your search between a couch and love seat in the same room. Over larger distances,

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What’s the Best Hair Straightener for You? It Depends (2025)

wired.com Kat Merck 2025-12-15 20:30:00

Compare Our Top 10 Hair Straighteners Other Straighteners We Tried Photograph: Kat Merck Paul Mitchell Neuro Style+ for $150: The latest in Paul Mitchell’s lineup of otherwise standout hair straighteners, this ceramic iron with Paul Mitchell’s new NeutraHeat temperature-regulating technology goes up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit and has dual voltage for travel. However, the body feels weirdly cheap and lightweight compared with older Paul Mitchell models, it took over a minute to heat up, and it

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Google Play Store preps a small but welcome UI change (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 08:18:22

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Store is preparing a redesigned account switcher. A prominent “Switch account” row appears below a greeting and your profile picture. The feature is enabled by flags in v46.8.29-31, mirroring recent rollouts in other Google apps. Update, August 27, 2025 (06:18 AM ET): The redesigned account switcher on the Google Play Store has started rolling out to some users, as reported by X user Joe Lenington. Original article, June 30 10, 2025 (11:5

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More great wallpaper in the run-up to two more Apple Stores in India

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-16 09:01:37

Apple is doubling its retail footprint in India with the imminent opening of two new stores next week, one in Bengaluru and the other in Pune. As usual, the company is offering downloadable wallpaper to celebrate the openings, this one with a peacock theme … The long road to Apple stores in India Apple had wanted to open retail stores in India for a great many years before it was finally able to do so. In a bid to boost the manufacturing sector in the country, the Indian government banned an

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What are you most looking forward to on September 9? [Poll]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-16 09:30:50

The iPhone 17 event is finally official with the slogan “Awe dropping,” taking place on Tuesday, September 9. We’re expecting Apple to announce either six or seven new devices, alongside some possible new iPhone cases and Watch bands too … The September 9 lineup Here’s what we’re expecting to see: iPhone 17 iPhone 17 Air iPhone 17 Pro iPhone 17 Pro Max Apple Watch Series 11 Apple Watch Ultra 3 With the possibility also of: AirPods Pro 3 Additionally, we may see a new premium case mat

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7 smart plug tricks that instantly made my home feel more automated

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-16 06:00:20

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Remember The Clapper? The plug-in staple may have made for a catchy jingle in the 1980s, but it could also be considered as a primitive ancestor of today's smart plug -- that is, if you can say anything from a few decades ago is primitive. Smart plugs offer greater convenience than The Clapper ever did, letting you control your devices from an app on your phone, your voice, or a schedule. Also: Unplugging these 7 common ho

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Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering

news.ycombinator.com Jgs Editor 2025-12-12 23:53:58

Rodrigo B. Salvador1, Natan C. Pedro2, Mark A. Carnall3 1Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 3Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK. Emails: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) gmail (dot) com; natan07 (at) alumni.usp (dot) br; mark.carnall (at) oum.ox.ac (dot) uk Download PDF In our plane of existence, molluscs are the second most diverse animal phylum in s

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AI Is Crushing the Early Career Job Market, Stanford Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-16 09:47:25

If you suspected that AI is taking jobs away from young workers, there is now data to back this up. Three economists at Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab —professor Erik Brynjolfsson, research scientist Ruyu Chen, and postdoctoral fellow Bharat Chandar— published a paper on Tuesday that found early-career workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed jobs “have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment.” “In contrast, employment for workers in less exposed fields and more

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If These 8 Rumored iPhone 17 Pro Max Features Turn Out to Be True, I Just Might Switch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 09:00:04

Now that we have a confirmed Sept. 9 date for when Apple will introduce the next fleet of iPhone models, it's time to get serious about about preparing for a phone switch. Do I hold onto my current iPhone Pro or jump to the latest iPhone 17 Pro based on what I'm hearing from the rumor mill? And just as important: If I do get a new iPhone, do I go for the larger iPhone 17 Pro Max model? Here's a rundown of some of the features rumored for the iPhone 17 Pro Max that I'm most curious about. Don't

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Here Are the Subtle Changes iOS 26 Brings to Your Lock Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 08:00:08

Apple released the fifth public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 25. The beta brought a handful of new features, like the ability to screen incoming calls and a new Liquid Glass design, to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. The update also lets you customize your lock screen in more ways than you could with iOS 18. When Apple released iOS 18, that update let you remove and change the controls on your lock screen. This was great if you found yourself accidentally pressing your flashlight control

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7 AI features I'd like to see the iPhone 17 embrace from Google, OpenAI, and others

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-12-16 10:15:17

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The release of the Google Pixel 10 phones with deeply integrated AI features that offer impressive new capabilities has revealed how vulnerable the iPhone 17 could be. Many of the smartest AI services in the world are already on the iPhone as apps, and so there's the possibility that Apple could partner with them for deeper integrations. The new AI camera features in the Pixel 10 could be the bigge

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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 03:44:16

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. Our story begins in December 2020, when Hector Martin kicked off Asahi Linux. I was working for Collabora working on Panfrost, the open source Mesa3D driver for Arm Mali GPUs. Hector put out a public call f

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Get Ready, Apple's iPhone 17 Event Confirmed for Sept. 9

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 05:00:00

Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for its annual fall iPhone launch event, which is slated for Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. PT. The company is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup, which could include a slimmer version of the phone. It could also debut the Apple Watch Series 11 and the AirPods Pro 3. The invite for the fall event shows the title, "Awe dropping," with a glowing Apple logo that seems to reference Siri's colorful glow. The keynote will be held at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. CNET

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Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith’s office

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-16 06:32:17

Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday and made it into president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, forcing a temporary lockdown. The “No Azure for Apartheid” group reportedly live-streamed their sit-in on Twitch, hoisting banners, chanting ‘Brad Smith, you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!’ and posting a mock legal summons charging Smith with “crimes against humanity.” TechCrunch has reached out to Microsoft for more information. According to The Verge, the prot

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Analyst warns of ‘tempered’ iPhone 17 Air response, but maintains Apple’s stock rating

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-16 11:25:45

In a new investor note, Bank of America Research analyst Wamsi Mohani offered his market outlook ahead of the upcoming September 9 event, where the iPhone 17 lineup will be announced. Here’s what he said. In his note, issued before today’s event confirmation, Mohani echoed a sentiment often raised by Apple watchers on the upcoming lineup: “Some media reports and tech websites are highlighting Tues Sep 9th as a potential launch date for iPhone 17 (not official yet), with pre-orders starting Fri

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Google to verify all Android devs to block malware on Google Play

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-16 11:23:46

Google is introducing a new defense for Android called ‘Developer Verification’ to block malware installations from sideloaded apps sourced from outside the official Google Play app store. For apps on Google Play, there was already a requirement for publishers to provide a D-U-N-S (Data Universal Numbering System) number, introduced on August 31, 2023. Google says this has had a notable effect in reducing malware on the platform. However, the system didn’t apply to the vast developer ecosystem

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A new challenger is coming for Meta’s smart glasses throne

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 16:22:08

TL;DR Rokid has announced the launch of a Kickstarter for its new AI/AR glasses. The glasses feature a dual-eye screen that acts as a heads-up display for directions, real-time translation, and more. They are set to ship in November for $599. When you think of smart glasses, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Meta. The social media giant’s Ray-Ban smart glasses hold a tight grip on the market. However, a new challenger may loosen that grip with the launch of its new product. Don’

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OmniFocus update brings Planned Dates, mutually exclusive tags, more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-16 16:30:53

Today, The Omni Group announced OmniFocus 4.7, which brings interesting new productivity and workflow features. However, an optional database migration is needed to enable some of them. Here are the details. About that new database In a blog post announcing the new features, the company explains that while it worked hard to maintain backwards compatibility between OmniFocus 3 and 4, some of the features announced today will require an update that moves the database to a new format. Still, the

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Apple Invites adds a helpful new iPhone feature

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-16 16:38:06

Apple Invites arrived at the start of the year and has seen a number of improvements since. The latest is a helpful new feature that iPhone users should appreciate. Starting with Apple Invites version 1.4, users can add a countdown widget to any Home Screen. The new widget will work with any upcoming event in the app on iPhone. This is the first widget made for the app. Previous Apple Invites app updates brought support for adding links to invitations, additional background options, and more.

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The iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event is on September 9: Here's what to expect from Apple

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 16:41:57

We're now just two weeks away from the Apple iPhone 17 event. Themed "Awe dropping" this year, it'll be livestreamed on YouTube at 1PM ET from Cupertino. We'll also have Engadget staff reporting and liveblogging from the event. This year is shaking up to be a departure from recent events, with the strong possibility of an all-new superthin iPhone expected to join the company's lineup. Also on tap could be new Apple Watch models — including the first truly new Ultra model in two years — and (mayb

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When to Stream 'South Park' Season 27, Episode 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 10:47:00

Comedy Central Predicting what will happen in a South Park episode is hard, but anticipating when a new installment will stream might be even tougher. The hit satirical series had its season 27 premiere date pushed by two weeks and then announced its second installment would drop two weeks after the first. Since then, it's become customary for new episodes to air every other week. While we don't have additional details on what the next South Park will entail, another aspect of the show is mor

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Google Will Make All Android App Developers Verify Their Identity Starting Next Year

wired.com Ryan Whitwam 2025-12-16 16:17:33

Android’s open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its next security initiative could make the biggest concessions yet in the name of blocking bad apps. Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identities of all Android app developers, and not just those publishing on the Play Store. Google intends to verify developer identities no matter where

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Seven products Apple will discontinue following iPhone 17 event

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-16 21:04:03

Apple’s iPhone 17 event is officially just around the corner. As new hardware arrives, we can expect Apple to discontinue seven products that it currently sells. iPhone 17 is the event headliner. With the arrival of four new iPhones, we can expect Apple to stop selling three iPhones that are currently in its store. Earlier this year, Apple replaced the antiquated iPhone SE with the more modern iPhone 16e. We currently expect Apple’s entry-priced iPhone to see annual updates, so it’s not going

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macOS Tahoe adds three new apps to your Mac, here’s what’s coming

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-16 21:53:17

Apple’s next major software update for the Mac is macOS Tahoe, also known as macOS 26. Alongside the new Liquid Glass design and major Spotlight upgrades, macOS Tahoe will bring three new Apple apps to the Mac. Here’s what’s coming. Journal Apple’s Journal app first arrived on iPhone with iOS 17.2 in late 2023. It’s been exclusive to iOS ever since then, but that’s changing this year. Journal is coming to the Mac in macOS Tahoe, and also the iPad in iPadOS 26. All your journal entries will s

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Titles matter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 17:45:21

Titles matter Recently, I saw a post on Bluesky that did not sit well with me at all. I’m not going to link to it directly or mention the author, because I don’t want to direct any negativity their way. That’s not why I’m writing this. I do, however, want to respond to the core of what was said (and which some were agreeing with). That core sentiment of the post was this: Somebody who generates websites using AI prompting is also a web developer. The qualification is “do you build websites”,

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What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 20:52:36

The BBC recounts by means of interviews the experience of a few ambassadors in these matters. "I was called by the foreign ministry and was told 'We need to see you immediately,'" Mr Casson [former UK ambassador to Egypt] tells the BBC. "The first thing they said was, 'We are not summoning you, but we are going to tell the press we are summoning you. If it had been a summoning, we would have sent a formal diplomatic note summoning you.'" This is the way things normally work in a summoning - a f

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A Pill to Fight Obesity Is on the Verge of Approval

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-16 21:20:02

The next big obesity medication coming down the pipeline will likely come in pill form. Eli Lilly has just released the latest positive Phase III trial results of its experimental oral GLP-1 drug, orforglipron. On Tuesday morning, Eli Lilly reported that orforglipron met the benchmarks of the company’s Phase III ATTAIN-2 study. People taking orforglipron experienced substantial improvements in weight loss and blood sugar control compared to those taking a placebo, the study showed. Armed with d

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AI skeptics are running out of rope to argue Apple isn’t desperately behind

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-17 02:37:20

Whenever a new story comes out detailing yet another setback with Apple’s AI initiatives and roadmaps, without fail, someone shows up and asks: “What exactly is Apple behind on?,” or “Catch up? Catch up to what?”. And while this sort of comment tends to come from people who seem to spend quite a lot of time and effort trying to make sure that everyone knows they don’t care about something, this specific hill they’re choosing to die on is getting increasingly steep. Here’s why. I will give them

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Plaud upgrades its card-sized AI note-taker with better range

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