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Airbuds is the music social network Apple and Spotify wish they had built

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-26 10:36:38

A new social network has been quietly blowing up with Gen Z and younger, and it’s not from Meta. San Francisco-based Airbuds offers a mobile, social app that lets people express themselves through their music. Users can share what they’re streaming with friends through a smartphone widget that works with a range of streaming services. On Wednesday, Airbuds is announcing its raise of $5 million in funding from early-stage venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis

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Alibaba's New AI Chip: Key Specifications Comparable to H20

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 08:45:44

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That Was the Most Intense Episode of ‘Alien: Earth’ Yet

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-26 14:00:50

The penultimate episode of Alien: Earth season one is now out in the world, and after a few episodes of setup, things took off like a rocket ship. There was payoff after payoff, showdown after showdown, and, yes, lots and lots of creepy, gory Alien action. It may have been the best episode of the season so far, and that’s saying something, so let’s dive into what happened, what it means, and why we loved it. The seventh episode of Alien: Earth is called “Emergence,” which is the perfect title f

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8BitDo’s wireless N64-inspired controller is 30 percent off

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-26 14:09:25

I’ve been seeing emails in my inbox every week about how RTX 50-series GPUs are in stock at many retailers, but the bigger news is that stock is apparently so plentiful that we’re seeing deals worth sharing. Whether you have a small form factor desktop build or not, thewith a triple-fan setup takes up just 2.5 slots in your case, making it a compact option if you’re trying to keep your components neatly tucked. This model debuted at $829.99, but for the past couple of weeks it has been available

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Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-26 15:00:00

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s updating the Discover page in its flagship Search app to allow you to follow specific publishers and creators to surface more content from those you like. The update follows a feature Google rolled out last month, allowing users to pick their choice of news sites and blogs for the Top Stories section in search results. In the weeks ahead, Google says people will also start to see different types of content on Discover, including articles, YouTube Shorts,

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AI and the Future of Defense: Mach Industries’ Ethan Thornton at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-26 15:00:00

From stealth mode to center stage, Mach Industries is bringing AI into one of the world’s most complex and controversial sectors: defense. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Ethan Thornton, CEO and founder of Mach Industries, steps onto the AI Stage to share what it takes to build in high-stakes environments where speed and autonomy matter most — and why next-gen infrastructure starts with rethinking the fundamentals. Inside the AI arms race — and the founder aiming to rewrite it Thornton launched Ma

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Workday stock climbs as activist investor Elliott takes $2 billion stake

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-26 18:55:44

Shares of Workday popped 9% on Wednesday to around $238 after activist investor Elliott Investment Management announced a $2 billion stake in the company. Workday announced a multi-year plan to enhance its operating model and capital allocation framework on Tuesday, and Elliott said it believes the plan will drive "substantial long-term value creation." "We believe CEO Carl Eschenbach, CFO Zane Rowe and the entire Workday team have made substantial progress in recent years, positioning Workday

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Matthew Lillard Teases His Return from the Grave for ‘Scream’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-26 17:00:46

A Legends of Tomorrow star joins Insidious 6. Avengers: Doomsday may be wrapping filming soon. Plus, what’s coming in the Alien: Earth finale. Spoilers now! Insidious 6 Deadline has word Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Sam Spruell, and Island Austin have joined the cast of Insidious 6. Avengers: Doomsday According to a new report from insider Daniel Richtman (via Yahoo! Entertainment), filming is scheduled to wrap on Avengers: Doomsday sometime later this week. Scream 7 Speaking at Silver Screa

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DJI’s New Light-as-Hell Drone Has the Best Camera You Can’t Buy

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-26 18:38:57

The U.S. government has effectively halted shipments of any of China-based drone maker DJI’s products to the States. If you’re already annoyed you can’t buy the latest, greatest drones, you’ll be much more than miffed to learn DJI finally showed off details of its Mini 5 Pro, which will have an all-new large CMOS sensor strapped to an upgraded gimbal, plus LIDAR sensing for better obstacle avoidance. Good luck trying to get it in the U.S. since you can’t even find it on the company’s store page.

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These 20 Kitchen Gadgets Are a Complete Waste of Money, According to Chefs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 18:03:00

With endless kitchen tools and gadgets promising faster food prep and better results, it's easy to find yourself with a cluttered kitchen. A handful of dependable tools will carry you much farther than a drawer full of gimmicks -- at least that's what the culinary experts I spoke to suggest. Professional chefs stick to basics like sharp knives, sturdy cutting boards, and reliable pans because they work and they last. Those are the types of tools that help you build confidence in the kitchen ins

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Report: Apple inches closer to releasing an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-26 18:30:37

At multiple points over many years, Apple executives have taken great pains to point out that they think touchscreen Macs are a silly idea. But it remains one of those persistent Mac rumors that crops up over and over again every couple of years, from sources that are reliable enough that they shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. Today’s contribution comes from supply chain analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, who usually has some insight into what Apple is testing and manufacturing. Kuo says that touchscreen

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Amazon's new AI agent can make an ad from start to finish - how to try it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-26 22:00:00

Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon says its agent makes high-quality ad production a breeze. The agent aims to give SMBs better advertising tools. It's accessible via a new "chat" feature in Creative Studio. Amazon has launched a new AI agent that automates virtually every step of the advertisement-production process, from audience research to ideation to storyboarding to the production of a short video ad. Also: In 2 years, half of a

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1Password directly integrates with Perplexity Comet now - for more secure agentic browsing

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-26 22:13:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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How to restart your Android phone without the power button: 2 alternative methods

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-26 22:55:12

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways You should make a habit of restarting your phone. There are several ways to restart an Android device. These methods can help with wear and tear on physical buttons. I regularly restart my Pixel 9 Pro, and there's a good reason for that. Actually, there are several reasons why I regularly restart my phone (weekly -- at least). Here's a short list for you to ponder: Improv

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Tau² Benchmark: How a Prompt Rewrite Boosted GPT-5-Mini by 22%

news.ycombinator.com Przemysław Hejman 2025-09-26 22:03:24

In a recent post, we introduced the Tau² benchmark, a framework for benchmaring LLMs. Today we’re sharing a surprising discovery we made while using it: a simple prompt rewrite boosted a small model’s success rate by over 20%. This post is a deep-dive on how we found and fixed this performance bottleneck by making subtle changes to agent policies. Benchmarking LLMs with Tau² On the recent OpenAI Summer Update, we have seen that GPT-5 model has made significant strides in agentic tasks. To vali

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Bored at Work? Tubi Wants to Help You Secretly Watch TV on the Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 22:00:00

Should you be watching TV while at work? Why yes, yes you should -- according to Tubi. On Wednesday, the streaming service announced the launch of a stealthy new tool that helps you watch shows and movies while you're at work. Some of you are probably already doing that (I'm not judging), but with the introduction of Productubity, you can be sneaky and switch to a fake screen to trick your colleagues. "It's designed for the modern multitasker who's streaming on the sly, because sometimes, the o

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Track power outages in real time across the US with the Ting app

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-09-26 22:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. There’s a new, free tool to help Americans monitor power outages in real time. Compiling data from its vast network of home sensors, startup Whisker Labs is launching the feature today in its Ting app. You don’t actually need to have one of these sensors in your home to use t

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Sony’s PS5 update adds controller swapping and Power Saving mode

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-26 22:28:25

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. PS5 users can now run select games in “Power Saving” mode and pair DualSense controllers with multiple devices. Sony started beta testing these features in July, but they’re now rolling out to everyone today in the version 25.06-12.00.00 console software update. The new Power Saver mode will reduce the power consumption of PS5 consoles in exchange for scaling back game performance, according to Sony’s PS5 u

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The Download: measuring returns on R&D, and AI’s creative potential

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-09-27 02:10:00

Given the draconian cuts to US federal funding for science, it’s worth asking some hard-nosed money questions: How much should we be spending on R&D? How much value do we get out of such investments, anyway? To answer that, in several recent papers, economists have approached this issue in clever new ways. And, though they ask slightly different questions, their conclusions share a bottom line: R&D is, in fact, one of the better long-term investments that the government can make. Read the full

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After years of touchscreen Mac rumors, here’s why I believe the latest one

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-27 02:35:56

Ming-Ching Kuo today suggested that we can expect a touchscreen MacBook Pro to go into production in late 2026. This is the latest in a years-long string of rumors that Apple is working on such a device. The company has been testing prototypes since at least 2008, but has consistently dismissed the idea of launching one. However, I do tend to believe the latest report … Apple’s rejection of touchscreen Macs Apple has consistently rejected the idea of a touchscreen Mac over a great many years.

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Mushroom Supplements Are the Biohackers’ Latest Fix (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-09-27 00:00:00

From ancient remedies to your Amazon cart, mushroom supplements have traveled a circuitous road. They nourish the body, enhance the mind, and occasionally poison the unlucky. Their biochemical adaptability has intrigued Eastern cultures for centuries. The West has been slow to embrace mushrooms until the 21st century, propelled in part by endorsements from celebrities like Gisele Bündchen and Gwen Stefani. Today, in a zeitgeist fixated on biohacking and self-optimization, mushrooms are now tool

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No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’

theverge.com Kallie Plagge 2025-09-27 02:30:00

As first noted by Games Fray last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were granted a US patent earlier this month involving summoning characters and making them battle. Headlines popped up with similarly vague language as concern spread on social media: That’s a thing in tons of games! Can they do that? Is that even allowed? Well, no, because that’s not exactly what they patented. And what they did patent might not stand up to any hypothetical challenges in court. The patent in question, US

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OpenAI releases first-of-kind study revealing how people are using ChatGPT for everyday tasks

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Shreya Ghosal 2025-09-27 09:56:34

Illustration of the ChatGPT App on the iOS App Store displayed on a phone screen. Despite rapid adoption of large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, few comprehensive studies have delved into exactly how the technology is being used in everyday life — that is, until now. On Tuesday, researchers, including those from OpenAI, released a first-of-its-kind study that examines who was using ChatGPT and for what purposes based on internal messages sent to ChatGPT on consumer plans. Amongst the

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How to measure the returns on R&D spending

technologyreview.com David Rotman 2025-09-27 09:00:00

Sure, it’s easy to argue for the importance of spending on science by pointing out that many of today’s most useful technologies had their origins in government-funded R&D. The internet, CRISPR, GPS—the list goes on and on. All true. But this argument ignores all the technologies that received millions in government funding and haven’t gone anywhere—at least not yet. We still don’t have DNA computers or molecular electronics. Never mind the favorite examples cited by contrarian politicians of se

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The best (and weirdest) things people actually use Samsung’s S Pen for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-27 11:00:43

Ryan Haines / Android Authority 🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. There are a lot of reasons to like Samsung phones, and for many people, one of the biggest reasons is the almighty S Pen. The S Pen has been a staple of Samsung phones (and tablets) for years. Having a stylus built into your phone that you can use for drawing, signing documents, more precise navig

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The OnePlus 12 is one of favorite Android smartphones from 2024 - and it's on sale for $300 off

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-27 08:00:27

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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This 25W wireless charger solved my biggest problem with the new iPhone 17

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-27 08:10:27

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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10 open-source apps I recommend every Windows user try - for free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-27 10:00:00

LibreOffice / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If Windows is your OS of choice, consider these open-source apps. There are tons of open-source apps for just about any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows. I've been using open-source software for a very long time. In fact, the last time I didn't use open-source software, Bill Clinton was president of the US. Open-source software is available for nearl

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EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 10:02:55

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Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value

news.ycombinator.com The Bbchallenge Collaboration 2025-09-27 10:26:18

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