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Apple's new iPhone charger dynamically switches between 40 and 60W

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 18:30:53

If you want a powerful phone charger in the smallest size possible, Apple has the answer — but there is a tradeoff. The company's new 40W Dynamic Power Adapter is the first charger to support the USB PD 3.2 AVS (adjustable voltage supply) protocol so it can hit up to 60W, but only for a limited time. It was designed to work the company's new iPhone 17 models with faster charging speeds than previous iPhones. Lugging heavy chargers is a particularly bugbear of mine so the Dynamic Power Adapter s

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Amish Men Live Longer

news.ycombinator.com Henry Troyer 2025-10-01 15:46:05

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

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The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-10-02 03:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-02 01:30:00

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing pioneer David Liu says later this year his lab plans to report on a single gene-editing strategy that could treat many unrelated diseases. He calls it disease-agnostic therapeutic gene editing. “It sounds sort of crazy, but there’s actually a very good molecular biology reason why this could be possible,” he told the audience in Boston, stopping short of details. Gene-editing treatments are currently being developed for

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Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

wired.com Rob Reddick 2025-10-02 03:00:00

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening,” she said at the WIRED Health summit last week. “There’s just a massive amount of risk that you can take off of the table.” Siddiqui is the founder and CEO of Orchid, a biotech company that offers whole-genome screening of embryos for IVF. By analyzing the DNA of different embryos before selecting which one to implant

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Apple’s new iPhone charger is a first of its kind

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-10-02 00:14:59

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Alongside its new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched a world’s first last week inside the very dull sounding “Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max.” It’s the first charger to support the USB PD 3.2 AVS protocol, giving you some of the

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The SSD version of LaCie’s iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-02 00:30:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the introduction of LaCie’s Rugged line, which features a bright orange bumper to protect data from drops. Today, Seagate announced an updated version of the LaCie Rugged M

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Android’s next flagship processor will be the ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-02 03:27:41

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Qualcomm has announced that its upcoming flagship mobile chipset is the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5,” a confusingly named successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite. While the processor itself will be unveiled during the Snapdragon Summit on September 23rd-25th, Qualcomm has already published an explanation for the branding update. “It might look like we skipped generations, but the truth is simpler— and more powerf

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Modder adds over an hour of Switch 2 runtime by dropping in a bigger battery pack

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-09-29 15:31:00

In a nutshell: The Nintendo Switch 2 debuted earlier this year to a warm reception from both reviewers and gamers. However, battery life remains one of its few weaknesses, a limitation carried over from the first-generation model. A modder has now attempted to address this issue by increasing the Switch 2's battery capacity from 5,220 mAh to 8,000 mAh. The mod comes courtesy of YouTuber Naga, who pried open a Switch 2 and installed a larger 8,000 mAh battery in place of the factory-fitted 5,220

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It’s official: The ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’ will power the next wave of Android flagships

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 00:41:03

Qualcomm TL;DR Qualcomm has announced that its new flagship processor will be called “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.” Xiaomi has confirmed that its next flagship phone lineup, the Xiaomi 17 series, will be powered by the new chipset. The processor will also power the Galaxy S26 series, with a possible “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy” branding. Qualcomm has officially announced its next flagship mobile chipset, the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.” Ahead of the 2025 Snapdragon Summit, where the chi

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AMD Turin PSP binaries analysis from open-source firmware perspective

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 18:35:42

Introduction In the previous post, we showed coreboot running on Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 with Turin CPU, the current, newest family of AMD server processors. However, we faced various obstacles and problems. Despite AMD publishing a set of blobs required for the Turin system initialization, they turned out to be not enough to release the CPU from reset by PSP. We were forced to do a workaround by injecting coreboot into the vendor firmware image and flashing it back. The whole process is far from ide

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Page Object (2013)

news.ycombinator.com Martin Fowler 2025-09-28 02:26:19

When you write tests against a web page, you need to refer to elements within that web page in order to click links and determine what's displayed. However, if you write tests that manipulate the HTML elements directly your tests will be brittle to changes in the UI. A page object wraps an HTML page, or fragment, with an application-specific API, allowing you to manipulate page elements without digging around in the HTML. The basic rule of thumb for a page object is that it should allow a softw

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For Good First Issue – A repository of social impact and open source projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 23:02:39

Committing to a better future Lend your skills to an open source project focused on the Digital Public Goods (DPGs). From fighting climate change, to solving world hunger, your efforts will contribute to creating a better future for everyone. Together, we can drive positive and lasting contributions to the world, one commit at a time. Explore a DPG repo below to get started.

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Which colours dominate movie posters and why?

news.ycombinator.com Stephen Follows 2025-09-29 16:43:26

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it against a lifetime of genre expectations. Over the past century, marketing teams have shifted from painterly illustration to photography and from saturated Technicolor hues to today’s more controlled, strategic colour use. I wanted to take a data-led look at colours on movie posters, so I gather

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Which NPM package has the largest version number?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 00:03:18

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

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The Witcher Season 4 will hit Netflix in October with its new Geralt

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 20:32:41

It's been quite the wait, but the fourth season of The Witcher is almost here. In a teaser shared this weekend, Netflix finally revealed the release date: October 30. The video also provided an extended look at Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia — a casting change that fans naturally have a lot of feelings about after Henry Cavill won their hearts with his take on the character in the first three seasons. The minute-and-a-half-long clip doesn't give away too much about season four, but we now hav

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How older parents divorce affects their adult children

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 20:57:14

Divorce in later life is becoming more common – and scientists are beginning to explore the surprisingly deep impact this can have on adult children and their relationships. Divorce is greying. The US has one of the highest divorce rates in the world, even though over the past four decades, it has fallen among younger couples. Instead, middle-aged and older adults have taken over. In fact, adults aged 65 and older are now the only age group in the US with a growing divorce rate. For the over-5

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Trigger Crossbar

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 00:08:13

Trigger crossbar 2025-09-14 11:00 If you have a large, well-equipped electronics lab you’re going to have a lot of instrumentation with trigger input and output ports. In my case all three oscilloscopes, the vector signal generator, and even my VNAs have trigger sync capability, and there’s probably more things I’m missing. And that doesn’t even count the ThunderScope or the two Siglent AWGs I have on loan for ThunderScope R&D. Very often, it’s handy to cascade these in order to enable compl

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Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

news.ycombinator.com Ali Domrongchai 2025-10-01 23:54:07

To add to the frustration, one Redditor pointed out that the brand may have “tinkered with the amount of leaveners in the mix itself. … When [the cake] first comes out of the oven, it looks like a more substantial amount of cake but then shrinks as it cools down.” (We reached out to Betty Crocker to verify any ingredient changes and have yet to receive a response.)

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Eric Kripke Assures ‘The Boys’ is Still Getting a Mexico Spinoff

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-01 20:50:22

Prime Video’s been feeding superhero audiences with The Boys and its Gen V spinoff, but the franchise has other shows in the works. Up on the docket is one set in Mexico that’s gone quiet since the initial reveal back in 2023. But according to Boys showrunner Eric Kripke, that series remains alive and kicking. In a recent Collider talk, he promised the show is in active development and is “very cool. […] I think the script is good, and the world itself meets the standard of all our spinoffs.” H

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James Gunn Slams AI-Generated Batman

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 17:45:50

As generative AI slop is threatening to turn Hollywood on its head, not everybody in the industry is enthusiastic about the tech. In a hilarious counter to a fan's AI-generated image of actor Brandon Sklenar dressed as the DC Comics' Batman, DC Studios filmmaker and "Superman" director James Gunn quipped in a Threads post that "it would be weird to cast an AI Batman with a 14 inch arm." Gunn was alluding to the AI-generated Batman's unnaturally short appendages, pointing out the AI's failure t

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OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 21:30:56

OpenAI claims to have figured out what's driving "hallucinations," or AI models' strong tendency to make up answers that are factually incorrect. It's a major problem plaguing the entire industry, greatly undercutting the usefulness of the tech. Worse yet, experts have found that the problem is getting worse as AI models get more capable. As a result, despite incurring astronomical expenses in their deployment, frontier AI models are still prone to making inaccurate claims when faced with a pr

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Get Your Wig and Sword Ready, ‘The Witcher’ Returns in October

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-01 21:30:32

At long last, we have a release date for The Witcher season four: October 30. On Saturday night, Netflix released a first look at the new season, which sees Liam Hemsworth as the new Geralt of Rivia after Henry Cavill bowed out. We see Geralt’s still doing his monster-slaying thing, and the clip goes out of its way to assure Hemsworth’s got the look and action chops to carry the show for its final two seasons. Like the Cavill-led era, this new adventure for Geralt will span eight episodes, and

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Feds try to dodge lawsuit against their bogus climate report

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-30 03:58:03

While the Trump administration has continued to refer to efforts to avoid the worst impacts of climate change as a scam, it has done almost nothing to counter the copious scientific evidence that demonstrates that climate change is real and doing real damage to the citizens of the US. The lone exception has been a draft Department of Energy report prepared by a handful of carefully chosen fringe figures that questioned the mainstream understanding of climate change. The shoddy work and questiona

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Liam Hemsworth is Geralt in the first Witcher season 4 trailer

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-01 08:30:29

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been a few years since Netflix confirmed that Liam Hemsworth would be taking over as Geralt of Rivia in the live-action Witcher series. And while we caught a brief glimpse of him in action last year, the first proper clip from season 4 of the show reveals just how Hemsworth will be inhabiting the role — including his take on Geralt’s signature growling voice. In addition to giving us a better look at G

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Scarlet turns Shakespeare into an animated fantasy epic

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-01 21:00:00

Well, I was wrong, and I did manage to make it to one last day at the Toronto International Film Festival. One of the movies I wanted to see the most this year was Scarlet, the latest from Mamoru Hosoda, whose most recent film was the metaverse fairy tale Belle. Whereas that film was a reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, Scarlet is a twist on Hamlet that’s full of bold, creative ideas. I mostly enjoyed it, but unfortunately it’s saddled with an ending that doesn’t really fit. I also managed to

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Gemini Live is giving me the confidence to speak my second language

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-30 22:00:40

Prakhar Khanna / Android Authority Recently when testing out Gemini’s ability to recognize different accents and languages, I realized that the AI tool’s Live mode actually understands my second language: Afrikaans. This lead to me having a conversation about different topics in the language and I realized that the chatbot could actually coach me and help me practice. As a result, I was able to learn new words, discuss topics I lacked the proficiency for, and ask questions about specific meani

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Gemini (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 21:04:53

What is Gemini? Gemini is a new way of using the Internet, separate from the World Wide Web you are familiar with. Compared to the WWW, it is intended to be: Simpler – Gemini pages aren’t programs that run in your browser like most modern websites are; they’re just text with a little formatting, so there are no surprises. Once you know how one Gemini page works, you know how they all work. Human Scale – Gemini servers and clients aren’t written by big, monopolistic software companies the way

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I can’t wait for Samsung and Google to copy this revolutionary iPhone 17 feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 06:00:37

Joe Maring / Android Authority Every Apple event, be it WWDC or the new iPhone launch, brings me a set of confusing thoughts. There’s a lot of mockery over what Apple has decided to copy innovate and their random announcements that no one asked for (hello, iPhone Air), but also a bit of jealousy-slash-awe at Apple’s pull over the entire phone industry. I see that new front-facing camera, and I know many Android brands are now scrambling to copy it in 2026; it’ll easily be the new gold standard

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For the first time, iPhone 17 Pro truly feels deserving of the ‘Pro’ moniker

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-01 15:32:20

Apple introduced the Pro moniker for iPhones six years ago with the iPhone 11 lineup. However, with the iPhone 17 lineup in particular – it feels like Apple truly developed a professional iPhone for the first time. I’ll explain. ‘Pro’ is no longer just flashy First things first, this year’s iPhone 17 Pro is no longer the flashy model, unlike previous Pro iPhones. With this years switch from Titanium to Aluminum, the iPhone 17 Pro simply uses the same material as the standard iPhone 17 model.

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Apple's new iPhone charger dynamically switches between 40 and 60W

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Which colours dominate movie posters and why?

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Trigger Crossbar

Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes

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