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Confusion reigns over T-Mobile’s free DashPass perk eligibility, here’s what we know

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-14 01:09:21

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is offering subscribers on select postpaid plans a free one-year DoorDash DashPass subscription via the T-Life app. There’s conflicting information about eligible plans between public FAQs and customer service. Subscribers whose plans are listed in the FAQ but don’t see the offer can contact T-Mobile for a potential bill credit. T-Mobile has rolled out an offer through the T-Life app, allowing subscribers to get a free year of DoorDash DashPass.

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X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform

news.ycombinator.com Mike Isaac 2025-08-14 05:52:04

Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X and a top lieutenant to its owner, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday that she was leaving the company two years after joining the social media platform. In a post to X, Ms. Yaccarino, 61, said, “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me.” She did not provide a reason for her departure. Ms. Yacc

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Deal: Don’t miss the year’s best Fitbit Charge 6 deal at 38% off

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-14 13:00:34

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority If you’re in the market for a fitness tracker, there’s a fantastic deal on the Fitbit Charge 6 during Amazon Prime Day. You can grab this wearable for just $99.95, down from its normal price of $159.95 and marking a substantial 38% discount off retail. This is the lowest price we’ve seen all year, even beating the previous low of $115. Fitbit Charge 6 for $99.95 (38% off) The Fitbit Charge 6 is packed with features aimed at fitness enthusiasts. It offers over

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Whatever you do, don’t buy these two Google smartwatches on Prime Day

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-14 20:00:57

Ryan Haines / Android Authority As fun and exciting as Prime Day can be, Amazon’s big shopping event can also be a bit of a mess. With so many sales to keep track of, it’s no surprise that some of the deals you find aren’t all that they’re cracked up to be. Such is the case with Prime Day discounts on Google smartwatches. You’ll find numerous Google wearables on sale for this year’s Prime Day, and while some of the savings are legitimately great, others … not so much. The two Google smartwatc

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Can you use a cellular watch with a prepaid carrier? Here’s what I found out

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-14 21:30:30

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Smartwatches have been around in some form for a little over a decade, and while Wi-Fi-only models remain the most common, there is growing interest in cellular watches as well. Typically, cellular smartwatches target postpaid customers of Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T. But can you use a cellular smartwatch with your prepaid plan? The answer isn’t simply yes or no. While more than a dozen carriers technically support cellular watches, compatibility varies greatl

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Record-Setting Qubit Performance Marks Important Step Toward Practical Quantum Computing

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-14 22:05:09

The promise of so-called “quantum advantage” is simple. By harnessing the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics, quantum computers should be able to—in theory—surpass the computational potential of any classical supercomputer. But before quantum advantage drastically changes information technology as we know it, researchers have yet to address the many hurdles that are preventing quantum computers from entering into the mainstream. That said, quantum computing as a field has evolved drama

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Starlink Is Coming to Phones in 2 Weeks. Check Whether You'll Get It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-15 04:15:00

In two weeks, you could be able to send a text message -- or even a photo, video or voice note -- from deep inside a national park or mountain pass. That's the future T-Mobile envisions, as its partnership with SpaceX's Starlink satellite service gets ready to launch on July 23. The alliance will provide direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, which will also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. T-Mobile says its goal is to "eliminate mobile dead zones for good" b

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Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-15 02:11:47

In Brief French AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund, reports Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Mistral is also talking to French lenders like Bpifrance SACA to raise hundreds of millions of euros in debt, per Bloomberg. TechCrunch has reached out to Mistral for comment. Mistral, makers of the Le Chat chatbot, is one of the most significant players in the European AI landscape with a focus on open-wei

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I found the ultimate accessory kit for tinkerers with 180 modifications, and it's $20 off for Prime Day

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-15 09:21:00

ZDNET's key takeaways This high-quality screwdriver kit has everything for both the budding enthusiast and professional repairer. This 180-piece kit has 160 quality screwdriver bits and a range of other useful tools, such as plastic prybars, a suction cup, and tweezers. There's no LED light on the front of the screwdriver, so working in dark, cramped spaces can be tricky. $69.99 at Amazon During Amazon Prime Day, the Jakemy 180-Piece Smart Cordless Screwdriver Kit is $13 off its usual $63 pri

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Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 08:50:04

I'm based in Canada and curious to learn more about interesting or up-and-coming tech companies here — not just the usual big names like Shopify or Lightspeed, but also smaller startups, bootstrapped companies, or niche players doing great work in software, hardware, AI, sustainability, fintech, etc.

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SpaceX in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-15 17:52:07

In Brief SpaceX is looking to raise fresh capital by selling new shares to insiders in a deal that would boost its valuation to around $400 billion, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The company’s strategy is to raise money via a fundraising round and separately hold a tender offer to allow employees to sell some of their shares to a select group of investors, anonymous sources told Bloomberg. SpaceX typically holds tender offers twice per year. SpaceX’s valuation has steadily climbed si

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Jack Dorsey made an encrypted Bluetooth messaging app

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-15 21:13:04

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Twitter co-founder and Block Head Jack Dorsey launched a new peer-to-peer messaging app over the weekend called Bitchat that runs entirely over Bluetooth. Bitchat relies on Bluetooth Low Energy mesh networks to send encrypted communications directly to nearby devices without requiring internet or cellular service. “Bitchat addresses the nee

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Microsoft July 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 137 flaws

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-16 01:30:56

Today is Microsoft's July 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 137 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server. This Patch Tuesday also fixes fourteen "Critical" vulnerabilities, ten of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities, one is an information disclosure, and two are AMD side channel attack flaws. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 53 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 8 Security Fe

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Someone Is Calling Trump Officials Using an AI Clone of Marco Rubio’s Voice

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-16 01:35:25

Government employees keep getting calls from Secretary of State Marco Rubio—which would be bad enough, frankly, having to talk to that guy. But making matters worse, it seems that it’s not actually Marco Rubio but instead, an unidentified caller who is mimicking his voice with artificial intelligence software, according to a report from the Washington Post. The technologically advanced crank caller has reportedly contacted at least three foreign ministers, a governor, and a member of Congress,

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With Fitbit part of Google, Amazon Is Clearing Out the Fitbit Charge 6 at a New All-Time Low.

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-16 05:55:54

Google has owned Fitbit for a couple of years now, but that hasn’t slowed the brand’s momentum. The Charge 6 remains both a fashionable add-on and an excellent fitness tracker and its smartphone app is simply brilliant to use and navigate. For Prime Day, Amazon is debuting a huge 40% off discount, which brings the Charge 6 down to an all-time low. The deal is only for Prime members but if you are not a member, you can take advantage of a 30-day free trial to join in on the action. The Fitbit C

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Meet the America Party, Elon Musk’s Harebrained Third-Party Scheme

wired.com Jake Lahut 2025-08-16 04:17:19

Elon Musk soft-launched a third party over the weekend, and so far, the billionaire seems to be manifesting his “America Party” into existence. Hard-launching the party, which he first posted about through a poll on X, would involve filing official paperwork, such as Federal Election Commission forms, and signing up to petition in individual states. Musk has not done those things yet. What Musk has done, however, is open the door for what could be the most well-funded attempt ever at launching

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An Unknown Entity Has Voice Cloned the Secretary of State and Is Calling High Level Officials

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-16 07:44:27

In a perfect example of why it's an absolutely terrible idea for high-level government officials to use personal cell phones, text messaging platforms, and apps like Signal, secretary of state Marco Rubio has fallen victim to a scammer who's been using AI to clone his voice and writing style. As the Washington Post reports, a July 3 State Department cable revealed that an impostor posing as Rubio had "contacted at least five non-Department individuals, including three foreign ministers, a US go

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A compact bitset implementation used in Ocarina of Time save files

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 14:25:43

OoT Bitset A no‑frills, zero‑overhead flag system inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Implemented in C / C++, and Rust Need to pack hundreds (or thousands) of one‑bit flags—“talked to an NPC”, “opened a chest”, etc.—into a save file without wasting bytes? Ocarina of Time solved this by storing flags in an array of uint16_t words. oot_bitset offers the same trick! I learned about this technique from reading the OoT decompilation project source code. See the original code that imp

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Robinhood CEO downplays OpenAI concerns on tokenized stock structure

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-08-16 17:25:32

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says it's not "entirely relevant" that the trading platform's so-called tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX aren't technically equity in the companies. It comes after OpenAI raised concerns about the product, which is designed to give users in the European Union exposure to various U.S. stocks — including private companies, which are less liquid than publicly listed firms. OpenAI last week warned that Robinhood's stock tokens do not represent equity in the company an

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T-Mobile is giving away DashPass subscriptions starting today

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-16 17:27:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile subscribers can now claim a free year of DoorDash DashPass (usually $120) through the T-Life app as part of a limited-time offer. DashPass gives you free or discounted delivery fees, extra promos, and Lyft perks, but this free promo doesn’t include the Max streaming benefit. Most T-Mobile users are eligible, and you have until August 4 to redeem; current DashPass subscribers will get a refund for unused time. In mid-June, T-Mobile celebrated

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This Govee RGBIC Floor Lamp Is 40% Off, Amazon Holds a Final Clearance Only for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-16 17:55:37

Amazon isn’t holding back on best-sellers for Prime Day and if you’re shopping for a smart floor lamp, there’s only one brand getting it right (and it’s anything but kitsch). Amazon is clearing out stock of the Govee RGBIC floor lamp at an all-time low price right now, so this is a deal that won’t last. Now $59, down from its usual $99, this lamp is firmly in the top 20 best-selling products in the Electronics category on Amazon. The discount is Prime members only, but if you’re not a member ye

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This Light-Pulsing Rubik's Cube Is a Dazzling Way to Play in the Dark

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-16 17:00:04

This plain-looking reflective cube lights up into a challenging Rubik's Cube game that's best played in the dark. The Rubik's Pulse Cube, announced by toy maker Spin Master on Tuesday for $20, looks like a grayish mirror when inside of its box. When turned off, the cube has a more reflective surface. You can somewhat see my skewed reflection in this photo. Mike Sorrentino/CNET Then when tapping its pressable center-square, the cube begins to illuminate the colors on the cube. Adding to the cha

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Stuck with your current carrier? An esim free trial is a good way to shop around

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-16 20:51:38

Harley Maranan / Android Authority Although switching carriers isn’t a hard process, it’s one many of us are reluctant to take. Maybe you’ve been with the same carrier for years and are afraid of jumping ship. It’s also possible you could be facing carrier fees or will have to pay off devices before making a move. Either way, you want to be sure what you switch to is better than what you came from. That’s where an eSIM free trial comes in handy. There are actually quite a few carriers that all

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Jack Dorsey’s New Private Messenger App Doesn’t Need an Internet Connection

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-16 21:45:50

What has Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter (now X) been up to lately? Among other things, creating experimental little projects, like a new private messenger that doesn’t need the internet to function. On Sunday, Dorsey announced the beta launch of a new messaging app that he says relies on mesh networks to pass messages from user to user via the power of Bluetooth technology. The service sounds vaguely like Amazon’s Sidewalk project (which similarly used mesh networks to power IoT devices),

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LIVE Amazon Prime Day 2025: We're Tracking Deals & Trends All Day

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-08-16 19:21:00

The birds may or may not be awake yet where you are, but there’s a great deal on the smart bird feeder I would buy with my own money this Prime Day after testing nearly 20 models over the past year for our guide to the Best Smart Bird Feeders. Many feeders that claim to be squirrel-proof, with various alarms, sloped roofs, and even a microphone where you can yell at them through your phone. (Sorry to the parents at my son’s indoor soccer game last month who witnessed this.) However, many feeder

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Frontier is helping Arbor build a “vegetarian rocket engine” to power data centers

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-08-16 21:00:00

Frontier, the organization backed by Stripe, Google, and Meta, announced Tuesday it is paying startup Arbor Energy to remove 116,000 tons of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. The deal gives Arbor $41 million to help it build its first commercial-scale power plant in southern Louisiana that will burn waste biomass to generate electricity for a data center. At the same time, it’ll sequester the resulting CO 2 , shipping it via pipeline to be buried deep underground. “We are able to market

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The Morning After: The best deals from Prime Day 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-17 06:30:39

Amazon’s mountain of Prime Day deals and discounts is finally live, and we’re already on it. As is tradition, if you’ve got gadgets on your wishlist, Engadget has you covered. The team is surfacing the best Prime Day deals on gadgets and gear we can find across the entire shopping event. There are the usual suspects of wireless earbuds, trackers and all things Kindle, but we’re digging deeper, finding strong discounts on our past recommendations, like Dyson vacuums, Mesh Wi-Fi systems and more.

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Jack Dorsey’s new bet is a Bluetooth-based WhatsApp competitor that requires no internet

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-17 05:52:43

Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has announced bitchat, a new experimental peer-to-per messaging app that doesn’t require the internet or even an account to work. Here’s the idea behind it. Protocols, not platforms Ever since TechDirt‘s Mike Masnick released his 2019 paper “Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech,” Jack Dorsey seems to have truly taken it to heart. That paper led Dorsey to launch the Bluesky project within Twitter (before it was spun out

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‘Anthem’ Is the Latest Video Game Casualty. What Should End-of-Life Care Look Like for Games?

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-08-17 08:43:16

Electronic Arts and BioWare will sunset their online multiplayer game Anthem on January 12, effectively making it obsolete. “Anthem was designed to be an online-only title so once the servers go offline, the game will no longer be playable,” BioWare wrote in the announcement. On August 15, the game will disappear from EA Play’s playlist. Right now, players can’t buy in-game currency, but they will be able to spend what they have until servers are offline. Developers at BioWare who have been wor

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Artist in Residence on a Satellite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 09:15:13

On February 3, 2024, at 11:06 a.m., the first Chinese art satellite, "SCA-1" (The first satellite of the Star Chain of Arts Project), was successfully launched into orbit near the sea area of Yangjiang, Guangdong, using the Long March 3B carrier rocket. The satellite's solar panels deployed normally, and the initial telemetry is normal. Among the thousands of satellites now orbiting above us, including scientific, meteorological, communication, and military satellites, there was a missing catego

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Confusion reigns over T-Mobile’s free DashPass perk eligibility, here’s what we know

X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform

Deal: Don’t miss the year’s best Fitbit Charge 6 deal at 38% off

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I found the ultimate accessory kit for tinkerers with 180 modifications, and it's $20 off for Prime Day

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SpaceX in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation

Jack Dorsey made an encrypted Bluetooth messaging app

Microsoft July 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 137 flaws

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With Fitbit part of Google, Amazon Is Clearing Out the Fitbit Charge 6 at a New All-Time Low.

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Robinhood CEO downplays OpenAI concerns on tokenized stock structure

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