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Threads is finally getting its own DM inbox

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 14:00:01

Nearly two years after launching Threads, Meta is finally giving in to users on one of the most requested features for the service: direct messaging. The company is beginning to test a dedicated inbox for Threads, beginning with Hong Kong, Argentina and Thailand, Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a post on Threads. Threads has had some messaging capabilities since last year, but the feature only allows users to send Threads posts to friends via their Instagram DMs. This is more than a little clunky a

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The best Father's Day gifts and gadgets for every dad in 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 14:00:37

Look, if your dad is anything like me, then they’re probably not a massive gamer, or might just play the odd title. I’m told that there’s a whole genre of Dad Games out there that apparently appeal to the fathers in our lives, which are all about following some sort of process. It’s likely then that they won’t have paid much attention to The Legend of Zelda series, which feels as un-Dad a game as you could imagine. Which is why I’m here to say that, until the start of this year, I felt the same,

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Sonos Ace headphones get long-awaited TrueCinema sound and more in big update

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 14:30:12

Sonos has announced a major software update for its flagship Sonos Ace headphones that brings some new features to the premium wireless cans. Chief among them is the long-awaited TrueCinema feature, which was first promised as upcoming when the headphones launched in 2024. TrueCinema uses a compatible Sonos soundbar to measure the acoustic dynamics of the room you’re sitting in. It then uses that data to increase the accuracy of the spatial sound in your headphones, in the same fashion as Truepl

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Razer launches its first barebones mechanical keyboard

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 18:50:43

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . On Tuesday, Razer launched its first keyboard for the DIY set. As its name implies, the BlackWidow V4 75% Barebones is the popular mechanical keyboard, only without keys and keycaps. It could be a solid option if you like Razer's design and Chroma RGB but want to bring your own keys.

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The USB-C Apple Pencil is on sale for $60 right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 13:16:30

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The USB-C Apple Pencil is on sale via Woot for just $60 . This is a discount of 24 percent and a record low price, as it typically costs $79. This serves as the company's "budget" stylus and was originally released at the tail-end of 2023 . Despite being the most reasonably priced App

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Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editors skewer the idea

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 18:00:29

Wikipedia is backing off AI article summaries… for now. Earlier this month, the platform trialed the feature in its mobile app. To say they weren't well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) paused the test a day later. The AI summaries appeared at the top of articles for 10 percent of mobile users. Readers had to opt in to see them. The AI-generated summaries only appeared "on a set of articles" for the two-week trial period. Editor comments in the WMF

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Prime Video reportedly shows almost twice as many ads as it used to

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 19:06:51

If it feels like you spend a lot more time watching ads in Prime Video than you used to, that may not be a mistake. Amazon has increased the number of ads or "ad load" in Prime Video to four-to-six minutes of ads per hour, Adweek reports. Amazon's plan to increase the amount of advertising in its streaming service was previously reported in October 2024. Shifting to a max of six minutes of ads per hour is nearly double the up to three-and-a-half minutes of ads that could play when Amazon first

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The best AirTag you can buy for your wallet isn't made by Apple (and you can save 20% on bundle offers)

zdnet.com Max Buondonno 2026-03-17 14:31:58

Max Buondonno/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Nomad Tracking Card It's a sleek tracker that's only the width of two credit cards, and the battery lasts for five months. However, be aware that it requires a wireless charger. For a limited time, Nomad is offering the popular Tracking Card paired with various Nomad wallets for a 20% off bundle price. Prices range from $59-$149 depending on the model selected. If you're like me, and you still carry around a physical wallet with your cards, cas

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Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-17 15:02:56

An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for THREE.js Integrate in your scene with other meshes and splats, fast rendering on all devices, programmable dynamic splat effects, wide format support (ply, spz, splat, ksplat)

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Shokz OpenRun Pro Hit an All-Time Low, the Best Bone Conduction Sport Headphones With 4.5-Star Reviews

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2026-03-17 15:10:57

Did you know that there are just an unfathomable number of headphone and earbud options out there? Seriously, we’d defy anyone who wanted to actually count them all; it’d take way too long. This wealth of options is good for all of us, but can make it really hard to find the right pair for what you need. We recommend figuring out what you actually want them for, and then going from there. So, if you’re someone who loves going for a run, then something like the Shokz OpenRun Pro headphones are a

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Meta's All In on AI Creating the Ads You See on Instagram and Facebook

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 15:10:10

Meta is working toward a near future when many of the ads you see on Facebook or Instagram are created from scratch by AI, and thus more easily targeted specifically to you. Its goal is fully automated AI-powered ad generation by the end of 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported last week. That could cut out roles for many human copywriters, designers and media buyers and potentially shake up the $600 billion global ad business, but it also could be a new, lower-cost resource for small and mediu

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Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Is About to Make Your iPhone Much Smarter About Charging

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 22:10:00

Usually, I'm the one adapting my behavior based on the power remaining in my iPhone, but starting this fall, I can ask my iPhone to do more of the adapting. A new Adaptive Power setting in iOS 26 can extend battery power by intelligently trimming energy usage in small ways that add up to extend the time before you need to recharge. See also: Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Could Save the iPhone 17 Air From This Major Pitfall Currently, the iPhone uses as much power as it needs to perform its tasks. Y

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Scientists built a badminton-playing robot with AI-powered skills

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-17 09:15:20

Robots like Atlas, Spot, and Stretch have amazed people with natural, life-like agility and body balance. What they were lacking, though, was a way to quickly connect this natural movement to perception—the robotic equivalent of the reflexes that let you catch a ball or duck in an instant to avoid getting hit. So, a team of scientists at ETH Zürich got busy fixing this problem. “I wanted to fuse perception and body movement,” said Yuntao Ma, a roboticist who led a team developing an AI-powered,

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Musk’s threat to sue firms that don’t buy ads on X seems to have paid off

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:00:48

Elon Musk's strategy of suing or threatening to sue companies that don't buy advertising on X has reportedly paid off in at least a few cases. A Wall Street Journal report yesterday said that Verizon and other companies started advertising on X after lawsuit threats. X sued some advertisers last year over what it claims is an illegal boycott and reportedly threatened to add other companies to the lawsuit if they didn't buy ads. The WSJ article said that Verizon, which hadn't advertised on X sin

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After RFK Jr. fires vaccine advisors, doctors brace for blitz on childhood shots

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:38:11

The medical community is bracing for attacks on, and the possible dismantling of, federal recommendations for safe, lifesaving childhood vaccinations after health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of a federal vaccine advisory committee Monday. Outrage has been swift after Kennedy announced the "clean sweep" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (A

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Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-17 20:20:40

CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi introduced the new multitasking UI in iPadOS 26 at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference this week, he did it the same way he introduced the Calculator app for the iPad last year, or timers in the iPad's Clock app the year before—with a hint of sarcasm. "Wow," Federighi enthuses in a lightly exaggerated tone about an hour and 19 minutes into a 90-minute presentation. "More windows, a pointier poin

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The iPad Is a Full-On Computer Now

wired.com Luke Larsen 2026-03-15 20:59:09

“This is what you've all been waiting for.” That's what Craig Federighi stated with a gleeful grin on his face as he introduced the latest changes to the iPad at Apple's WWDC25 keynote. He wasn't talking about new iPad hardware, new software features, or AI implementation that didn't suck. He was talking about windows. You know, those things that computers have. With the release of iPadOS 26, Apple gives these tablets the ability to use conventional windowing—and iPads will never be the same.

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The UK Accelerates Its Self-Driving Car Ambitions

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2026-03-16 06:30:00

Slow and steady. When it comes to autonomous vehicles on city roads, that’s been the approach in most of the world’s countries. But on Tuesday, the UK announced it would put a cautious foot on the pedal, when the Department of Transport said it would accelerate plans to allow companies to operate self-driving cars on public roads in limited pilot programs starting spring of next year. The British government had initially planned to open up its roads for self-driving vehicles more than a year la

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Sony WH-1000XM6 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra: Which Is Best?

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2026-03-16 11:03:00

Every couple of years, Bose and Sony trade blows in an effort to claim the title of the best noise-canceling headphones you can buy. Until recently, Bose's QuietComfort Ultra (9/10, WIRED Recommends) had the edge, offering world-crushing cancellation that bested Sony's still-great WH-1000XM5 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) and other top models from the likes of JBL, Sonos, and Apple. Now, Sony's back with its latest WH-1000 model, the predictably titled WH-1000XM6 (9/10, WIRED Recommends). The new pai

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The Viral Storm Streamers Predicting Deadly Tornadoes—Sometimes Faster Than the Government

wired.com Hilary Beaumont 2026-03-17 09:30:00

At 10:44 pm Eastern time on May 16, Ryan Hall spotted a blue square on his radar indicating debris flying into the air and realized a huge tornado was racing toward Somerset, Kentucky. “We’ve been watching this storm for a while, we’ve been hootin’ and hollerin’ for a while, hopefully the message has gotten out there and we know to be in our safe spots,” Hall warned his YouTube audience in a calm voice with a Southern twang. A silver robot with blue eyes popped onto the screen to tell Hall tha

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Best Workout Headphones We Tested and Sweated In (2025)

wired.com Adrienne So 2026-03-17 10:33:00

Honorable Mentions Photograph: Adrienne So We try almost every pair of new workout buds that come out. Here are a few that we also like that didn't quite earn a space above. Jabra Elite 8 Active Gen 2 for $180: In 2024, Jabra announced that this generation of the Elite Active series would be its last, which I hate, because these are the best. They're comfortable, secure, sound amazing, have a pleasingly matte texture and a smart case. These will be obsolete in two years. I weep. JLab Epic Sp

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My Virtual Avatar No Longer Looks Terrible in the Apple Vision Pro

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2026-03-17 18:07:16

Remember Apple’s Vision Pro? That's the $3,499 mixed reality headset the company launched early in 2024 that failed to garner much public interest. Apple has steamed ahead with updates for the platform over the past year, and soon there will be a new version upgrade: visionOS 26. (Apple announced at WWDC it was changing the way it named its operating systems to match the following year.) I got a chance to try out a few of the new capabilities, but two stuck out to me more than the others. First

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ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-17 14:30:00

Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study on Wednesday claiming that, in certain scenarios, his former employer’s AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down. In a blog post, Adler describes a series of experiments he ran on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model, the default model available in ChatGPT, to test the AI’s tendency to favor its own self-preservation, even if it’s at the expense of a user’s safety. In one test, Adler instructed GPT-4

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Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 23:34:37

21 FEB • 2025 8 minutes TLDR: I wanted to generate an up-to-date disk image for a Rock Pi 4 using Yocto that included CUPS and Docker to both get a better understanding of Yocto and test the new SBOM generation feature. As with many single-board computers (SBCs) from China, the issue often isn’t the board itself but rather the software. RockPi from Radxa is no exception. If you go and download the latest disk images for this board, you will notice that they are all end-of-life (EoL). However,

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DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-11-10 15:30:00

This month, Andrew Bernier, a US Army Corps of Engineers researcher and a union leader, says that he has received a barrage of menacing messages from the same anonymous email account. Unfolding like short chapters in a dystopian novel, they have spoken of the genius of Elon Musk, referenced the power of the billionaire’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and foretold the downfall of “corrupt” union bosses. But the most eerie thing about the emails, which Bernier says began a

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Reddit has recovered from another outage

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-11 06:14:37

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Following some apparent outages on Thursday, Reddit dealt with more issues Friday evening that lasted for around two hours. Initially, when I logged in on my desktop browser during Friday’s outage, Reddit wouldn’t load at all — I would just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loaded, though it seemed to load slower than usual. I was also able to load the si

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Scientists spent 10 years on a superbug mystery - Google's AI solved it in 48 hours

techspot.com Shawn Knight 2025-11-10 23:22:00

What just happened? Researchers at Imperial College London say an artificial intelligence-based science tool created by Google needed just 48 hours to solve a problem that took them roughly a decade to answer and verify on their own. The tool in question is called "co-scientist" and the problem they presented it with was straightforward enough: why are some superbugs resistant to antibiotics? Professor José R Penadés told the BBC that Google's tool reached the same hypothesis that his team had

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Moroi preview: A grimdark action game that's actually pretty funny

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 18:00:09

The most surprising thing about Moroi is its sense of humor. Moroi is a top-down, dual-stick action and puzzle game set in a dungeon of surreal horrors, where each cell contains a unique and grotesque vignette. In the first area of the map, there’s a cell containing a sentient meat grinder that craves human flesh. In another, a dead man is strapped to a feeding tube that’s still pumping slop into his bulbous, pulsing stomach. The next room over, you meet a talking duck with far too many human te

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Federal government reportedly plans to shut down its EV charging infrastructure

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 23:13:14

The General Services Administration plans on shutting down federal EV charging infrastructure in the coming weeks and "offloading" EVs purchased by the previous administration, The Verge reports. Since the GSA oversees government buildings, shutting down chargers will impact personal electric vehicles owned by government employees and government-owned EVs. "As GSA has worked to align with the current administration, we have received direction that all GSA owned charging stations are not mission

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Suckless.org: software that sucks less

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 22:27:00

Home of dwm, dmenu and other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality. Read more about our philosophy and join us on the mailing list. News Atom feed 2024-11-26 2024-04-05 This reverts a commit and a regression with cursor move with wide glyphs, for example with GNU readline. 2024-03-20 Below are some highlights of the changes for the recent releases of dmenu, dwm, st and tabbed, see the git logs for all details: General small Makefile improvements, rationale

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Latest Tech News

Threads is finally getting its own DM inbox

The best Father's Day gifts and gadgets for every dad in 2025

Sonos Ace headphones get long-awaited TrueCinema sound and more in big update

Razer launches its first barebones mechanical keyboard

The USB-C Apple Pencil is on sale for $60 right now

Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editors skewer the idea

Prime Video reportedly shows almost twice as many ads as it used to

The best AirTag you can buy for your wallet isn't made by Apple (and you can save 20% on bundle offers)

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Shokz OpenRun Pro Hit an All-Time Low, the Best Bone Conduction Sport Headphones With 4.5-Star Reviews

Meta's All In on AI Creating the Ads You See on Instagram and Facebook

Adaptive Power in iOS 26 Is About to Make Your iPhone Much Smarter About Charging

Scientists built a badminton-playing robot with AI-powered skills

Musk’s threat to sue firms that don’t buy ads on X seems to have paid off

After RFK Jr. fires vaccine advisors, doctors brace for blitz on childhood shots

Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

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Sony WH-1000XM6 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra: Which Is Best?

The Viral Storm Streamers Predicting Deadly Tornadoes—Sometimes Faster Than the Government

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My Virtual Avatar No Longer Looks Terrible in the Apple Vision Pro

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DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government

Reddit has recovered from another outage

Scientists spent 10 years on a superbug mystery - Google's AI solved it in 48 hours

Moroi preview: A grimdark action game that's actually pretty funny

Federal government reportedly plans to shut down its EV charging infrastructure

Suckless.org: software that sucks less

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