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July Mortgage Rate Forecast: Buyers Retreat as Rates Rebound

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 01:36:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET Every time the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dips, even by a few tenths of a percentage point, prospective homebuyers jump to take advantage. As soon as rates move up again, mortgage activity goes down. The past few weeks offer a textbook example. When rates fell to around 6.7% (the lowest level in months) in early July, applications for home loans promptly ticked up, according to the Mort

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Waymo Expands in Austin. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 02:03:28

Table of Contents Waymo Expands in Austin. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Thursday, the company extended into more parts of Austin, Texas, so it now drives across 90 square miles of the city. There are more than 100 Waymo vehicles in the city, with plans for further expansion. Along with Austin, Waymo currently operate

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Apple's New Emoji Game Gives You a Smiley Wordle Alternative

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 02:09:43

Do we 💖 this? Just in time for World Emoji Day, Apple News Plus has launched Emoji Game in another indication that we will never have enough digital toys to entertain and divert us. In the new game -- available in English for News Plus subscribers in the US and Canada -- players will try to fill in the blanks of three short phrases using a selection of emoji and genmoji using as few moves as possible. For example, if the phrase is "- - - - - of my - - -" ("Apple of my eye"), then you would use

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Google hides secret message in name list of 3,295 AI researchers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-02 03:12:01

How many Google AI researchers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A recent research paper detailing the technical core behind Google's Gemini AI assistant may suggest an answer, listing an eye-popping 3,295 authors. It's a number that recently caught the attention of machine learning researcher David Ha (known as "hardmaru" online), who revealed on X that the first 43 names also contain a hidden message. "There’s a secret code if you observe the authors’ first initials in the order of author

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New Apple video comedically says: be careful what you remove from photos

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-02 07:40:24

Apple has just released a new video advertising Apple Intelligence on the iPhone 16, with one feature spotlighted: Clean Up. The humorous message of the video? Be careful what you remove from photos. Clean Up should not be used to remove beloved pets, says new ad Clean Up is an Apple Intelligence feature that lets you remove unwanted objects from photos. Available inside the Photos app, Clean Up lets you easily alter an image to get rid of any visual distraction that’s unwanted. But per Appl

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Spotify's Audiobooks+ add-on is now available to some Premium subscribers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-02 07:50:30

It’s likely that you predominantly associate Spotify with music and podcasts, but if you’re a Premium member, you also get 15 hours of audiobook access per month. For some members, though, that clearly isn’t enough, as Spotify has introduced a new add-on subscription that doubles that listening time. Audiobooks+ was first trialled in Ireland and Canada, and is launching initially for Premium Individual and Plan members in a number of countries in Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand. On

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Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 06:00:18

AI assistants are at their best when they let you go deeper in your thinking, keep your conversation flowing, and maintain contextual continuity. Today, we’re making Le Chat even more capable, more intuitive — and more fun — with a collection of powerful new features to help you research more thoroughly, express yourself more naturally, and keep your interactions — text, voice, and images — organized in context. What’s new in Le Chat. Deep Research mode: Lightning fast, structured research rep

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The First Trailer for ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Is a Johnny Cage-Filled Extravaganza

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-08-02 07:00:01

Warner Bros. has finally unveiled the new trailer for Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to its 2021 video game adaptation. It stars Karl Urban as B-movie star Johnny Cage, and the character is front and center in this new clip. The sequel film, whose title is likely to cause further confusion among fighting game fans, on top of the damage already caused by game developer NetherRealm Studios, was first announced in 2022. The trailer aims to put viewers right back in the middle of the gory action. In

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Apple's Emoji Game for News Plus Subscribers Could Be Your Latest Puzzle Obsession

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 06:28:24

Do we 💖 this? Just in time for World Emoji Day, Apple News Plus has launched Emoji Game in another indication that we will never have enough digital toys to entertain and divert us. In the new game -- available in English for News Plus subscribers in the US and Canada -- players will try to fill in the blanks of three short phrases using a selection of emoji and genmoji using as few moves as possible. For example, if the phrase is "- - - - - of my - - -" ("Apple of my eye"), then you would use

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The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-02 07:44:33

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Today is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising batch, especially the Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.” The list includes these emoji, according to the Consortium: Apple core Ballet dancers Distorted Face Fight clo

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Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to solve puzzles

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-01 19:00:00

Apple is introducing a new reason to upgrade to its subscription news offering, Apple News+: more games. On Thursday, the company announced the addition of the Emoji Game, an original title that will join its other games, including its Crossword puzzle, Crossword Mini, Sudoku, and word game Quartiles, in both the U.S. and Canada in English. Bundling games with other services has proven a successful strategy to attract users and keep them engaged, as The New York Times and even LinkedIn have dis

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Genmoji in iOS 26: Here’s every new feature coming soon

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-02 10:34:58

Genmoji launched last December in iOS 18.2 as a new Apple Intelligence feature for creating custom emoji. And in iOS 26, Apple has upgraded Genmoji with several new capabilities that will hit your iPhone soon. Here’s what’s new. New Genmoji upgrades are on the way in iOS 26 If you’ve used Genmoji much in iOS 18, you’ll know that the feature is both very freeing, but also has its limits. On one hand, Genmoji can expand the number of emoji options on your iPhone almost infinitely. But when it

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I put this buzzworthy 2-in-1 robot vacuum to work in my house - here's how it fared

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-02 11:04:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Yeedi S14 Plus is available for a retail price of $1,400, though an introductory offer puts it at $999 for a limited time. The Yeedi is a big upgrade from almost any robot vacuum on the market right now, with 18,000Pa of suction and a self-cleaning mop roller. The S14 Plus doesn't have a detergent dispenser, its obstacle avoidance could be better, and it has an odd plastic smell (though that could be my unit). $1,399.99 at Amazon I've been testing what is decidedly t

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Your Pooch’s Personality Influences How They Watch TV

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-02 11:00:30

When a doorbell rings during your favorite TV show, does your dog leap up and start barking or cock their head inquisitively? According to a new study, the answer to this question may be linked to your pup’s personality. This doesn’t just apply to TV shows meant for human consumption. In recent years, dog-specific TV programming has become a popular enrichment tool among owners who want to keep their canine companion calm and entertained while they’re out of the house. Today, there are many TV

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4 Best Music Streaming Services (2025): Spotify, Apple Music, and More Compared

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-08-02 06:00:00

Music sure has come a long way since you had to go dig through the bins at your local record store. You can pipe hundreds of millions of songs directly into your headphones from anywhere with an internet connection, all for the price of one CD each month. No more buying tracks or buffing out scuffs. All of these services’ libraries pretty much mirror each other, with the phrase “over 100 millions songs” being thrown around by multiple services. The things that separate streaming services are th

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Wacom’s new MovinkPad drawing tablet doesn’t need a PC

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-02 11:00:00

Wacom has announced the MovinkPad 11, an all-in-one Android-powered tablet for digital illustrators who want to draw on the go. Unlike other display drawing tablets in Wacom’s lineup, the $449 MovinkPad doesn’t need to be connected to a laptop or PC, placing it in direct competition with the Apple Pencil and iPad combo that’s proved incredibly popular with digital artists. Unlike Apple’s iPad lineup, however, the 11.45-inch MovinkPad prioritizes digital drawing capabilities over typical activit

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I tested the Ferrari of robot mowers for a month - here's my verdict

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-02 15:13:39

ZDNET's key takeaways The Mammotion Luba 2 3000H is available for $2,599. Built to handle uneven terrain, the Luba 2 is an all-wheel-drive (AWD) reliable robot mower with a GPS-powered perimeter that is surprisingly easy to set up. The Mammotion app is not very user-friendly and can get buggy after a firmware update. View now at Us.mammotion Mowing the lawn is one of my favorite chores. It lets me focus on an uninterrupted task that satisfies my OCD, with the bonus of completing my exercise r

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Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google issue joint AI safety warning - here's why

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-08-02 15:15:39

Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty Images Over the last year, chain of thought (CoT) -- an AI model's ability to articulate its approach to a query in natural language -- has become an impressive development in generative AI, especially in agentic systems. Now, several researchers agree it may also be critical to AI safety efforts. On Tuesday, researchers from competing companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind, as well as institutions like the Center for AI Safety, Apollo Resea

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Got ChatGPT Plus? You can record and summarize meetings on a Mac now - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-08-02 15:44:45

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Looking for an automated way to record, analyze, and summarize meetings and other conversations? You can now do that with any paid ChatGPT subscription, as long as you use a Mac. Also: Is ChatGPT Plus really worth $20 when the free version offers so many premium features? On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that its new Record mode is now accessible to ChatGPT Plus subscribers. The recording capability, which kicked off in June, was initially restricted

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Apple launches new emoji word game to take on Wordle and the NYT

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-08-02 15:47:23

It’s called simply Emoji Game, and each day you’re presented with three phrases, which have some letters filled in, but are mostly blank. There’s a partial hint as to what the word or phrase is that you’re trying to complete, and then a whole bunch of emoji at the bottom. The idea is to take the words or sounds the emoji represent and use them to fill in the blanks. So — and this is just an example I made up, so it’s not a spoiler — you might be presented with SH_ _ _, and an emoji of an elf. St

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It’s World Emoji Day – which are your favourites?

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-02 19:34:00

I’m sufficiently old and grumpy to have resisted the use of emoji for a long time, wondering what was wrong with, you know, words – but I did find myself assimilated in the end. The tiny colorful substitutes for vocabulary now make up a growing percentage of our communication, especially since Apple allowed any emoji to be used for tapback reactions .. In fact, we apparently send five billion of the little critters every day. World Emoji Day is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that Jul

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Adobe Firefly can now generate sound effects from your audio cues

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-02 19:00:08

Since rolling out the redesign of its Firefly app in April, Adobe has been releasing major updates for the generative AI hub at a near monthly clip. Today, the company is introducing a handful of new features to assist those who use Firefly's video capabilities. To start, Adobe is making it easier to add sound effects to AI-generated clips. Right now, the majority of video models create footage without any accompanying audio. Adobe is addressing this with a nifty little feature that allows user

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My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 18:04:53

TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims – Discussion at hackernews (soon) Chapter 1: You’ve got mail# As I was writing my first post some weeks ago, I got an email from my bank in my inbox: Here the English translation of the email: Dear …, The big Wero Win Weeks are starting! Take part now and secure your chance every week to win 7 prizes o

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We Might Be Waiting a While for a ‘Superman’ Sequel

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-08-02 19:00:23

The wait for that Superman sequel might allow for another member of the DC trinity to step up, however. Walking Dead: Dead City is getting a new showrunner when it returns for season 3. Plus, what’s coming on Revival. Spoilers away! Other Mommy Deadline reports eight-year-old Arabella Olivia Clark (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere) will star alongside Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass and Dichen Lachman in Other Mommy, the upcoming horror film at Universal and Atomic Monster from director Rob

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I Asked CNET Staffers Their Favorite Emoji for World Emoji Day. Smileys Reign Supreme

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 18:00:16

Every July 17, the internet comes together and celebrates World Emoji Day. The date was chosen because it's displayed on the 📅calendar emoji, but it's a day to appreciate all emoji, even the more obscure ones, like the 🫙jar emoji. In honor of the internet holiday, I asked my colleagues at CNET what their favorite and most used emoji are. The rules for voting were simple: You could only vote once for your favorite emoji and once for your most-used emoji. There was more variety in the category of

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Apple's Emoji Game is now out for News+ subscribers in the US and Canada

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-02 23:15:05

Apple has rolled out the Emoji Game exclusively for its News+ subscribers in the US and Canada, just in time for World Emoji Day. While the company originally announced the game for iOS 26 at WWDC earlier this year, the Emoji Game is now available to subscribers on iPhone, iPad and Mac running iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4 or later, respectively. The game is similar to other word games out there like Wordle in that players would have to fill in the blanks to guess words and phrases. But l

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Xbox Hacks: The A20 (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 14:22:53

In November of this year (2021) we will hit 20 years since the release of the original Xbox. This console was full of vulnerabilities (or misconfiguration) from the software to the hardware and with such a low price point two decades ago for a computer - it was highly popular. For this post we are going to go into a lot of details regarding one mistake Microsoft made which was the A20. All the discoveries and research belongs to The Xbox Linux Project and Michael Steil. Research was obtained be

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My Bank Keeps on Undermining Anti-Phishing Education

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 23:04:53

TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims – Discussion at hackernews (soon) Chapter 1: You’ve got mail# As I was writing my first post some weeks ago, I got an email from my bank in my inbox: Here the English translation of the email: Dear …, The big Wero Win Weeks are starting! Take part now and secure your chance every week to win 7 prizes o

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ESA’s Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 01:01:44

Applications ESA's Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration 15/10/2024 10144 views 62 likes Imagine a near future where services such as satellite navigation, video conferencing, and file sharing are as seamless on the Moon as they are on Earth. That’s the vision of ESA’s Moonlight programme, which aims to establish Europe’s first-ever dedicated satellite constellation for telecommunication and navigation services for the Moon. With over 400 planned lunar missions by spac

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Best T-Mobile Plans: How to Choose and Which Ones to Pick in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 22:00:00

The T-Mobile Essentials Saver plan offers unlimited data usage and includes 50GB of "Premium" data, which is the fastest-capable 5G rate available in your area. After 50GB, speeds are reduced to 3G levels for the remainder of the month. However, that Premium may not always be so premium: T-Mobile notes in the fine print that "Essentials customers may notice speeds lower than other customers and further reduction if using >50GB/month, due to data prioritization." You can use your phone as a mobi

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July Mortgage Rate Forecast: Buyers Retreat as Rates Rebound

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The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

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I put this buzzworthy 2-in-1 robot vacuum to work in my house - here's how it fared

Your Pooch’s Personality Influences How They Watch TV

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Wacom’s new MovinkPad drawing tablet doesn’t need a PC

I tested the Ferrari of robot mowers for a month - here's my verdict

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Got ChatGPT Plus? You can record and summarize meetings on a Mac now - here's how

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I Asked CNET Staffers Their Favorite Emoji for World Emoji Day. Smileys Reign Supreme

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Xbox Hacks: The A20 (2021)

My Bank Keeps on Undermining Anti-Phishing Education

ESA’s Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration (2024)

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