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Unity developers can now tap into system screen reader tools on macOS and Windows

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 04:03:48

Unity is updating its game engine to support native screen readers in both macOS and Windows. The feature is available now in the Unity 6000.3.0a5 alpha, and should make the process of making games accessible for blind players cheaper for developers, Can I Play That? writes . Screen readers narrate on-screen menus so blind and low-vision players can navigate a game or a piece of software without additional assistance. Typically, screen reading software is custom-built for each game, which can m

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Lenovo’s ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept Laptop Has a Swiveling Screen

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-13 14:00:00

Lenovo isn’t shy about trying new things. Last year, the PC maker teased a concept laptop with a transparent screen. Earlier this year, the ThinkBook Flip concept employed a flexible OLED display that folded over the top of the laptop lid, ready to flip up whenever you needed the extra screen space. At CES 2025, we saw a ThinkBook with a rollable OLED screen that expanded upward automatically at the touch of a button—this one is a real product you can actually buy. Get ready for another whacky

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Lenovo demos laptop with a screen you can swivel into portrait mode

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:04:59

Lenovo has proven again that it isn’t content with PC designs. The latest era of laptops has been focused on ultralight computers that are easy to transport, but they're hard to differentiate. However, Lenovo’s continual experimentation has brought us some unique laptop releases and concepts in recent years, including a laptop with a screen that expands by rolling, a laptop with an outward folding screen, laptops with foldable screens, and laptops with dual 14-inch displays. The ThinkBook Verti

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Score Insane Student Deals on Laptops and Gaming Consoles at AliExpress

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 11:15:00

With prices rising for just about everything these days, back-to-school shopping might feel a little more stressful than usual. Thankfully you can find incredible deals on all the tech you need at AliExpress, the global marketplace. AliExpress uses direct sourcing in order to offer eye-popping prices on laptops, headphones, gaming devices and everything you'll need to crush it at school (and after school) this year. And through August 28, you can unlock extra savings on their already low prices

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I have two Amazon Echos that I never use, but they apparently burn GBs a day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:40:08

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Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 10:08:26

→日本語で読む Welcome to “Interviews with Demosceners”! This time, we welcome Japanese demoscener 0b5vr, who mainly creates 64K and 4K intros. For many, 0b5vr is best remembered for his 64K demo “0b5vr GLSL Techno Live Set”, released at Revision 2023. In this interview, he talks about how this piece was created, as well as his recent live music performance. He also talks about trends around the Japanese demoscene, like music production with GLSL, machine live, and generative VJ. I also took the cha

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We saw the next Boox Palma and… is that a color E Ink screen and cellular connectivity?

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-15 00:27:36

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. It wasn’t on public display at its IFA 2025 booth, but Boox gave The Verge’s Jess Weatherbed a brief but early look at its next Palma smartphone-sized e-reader. The company wasn’t yet willing to divulge any technical specs. Still, the new Palma appears to fea

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The blueprint for lasting companies and communities with Discord’s Jason Citron and Campuswire’s Tade Oyerinde at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-15 04:30:00

When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this live Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last,” only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 on October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This fireside chat brings together Jason Citron, founder and former CEO of Discord, and Tade Oyerinde, founder, CEO, and chancellor of Campus and Campuswire, for a conversation about building long-ter

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This new Withings smartwatch can tell you when you're getting sick

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-15 12:00:17

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways Withings has unveiled its Vitality Indicator. The feature can notify users ahead of illness. The feature arrives in tandem with the ScanWatch 2. Tech brands are betting big on the ability to spot health strain before symptoms arrive. The latest feature in Withings' newest smartwatch is no different. Withings' Vitality Indicator, available on its new ScanWatch 2, monitors a user's vitals, like their heart rate variabi

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Interview with Japanese Demoscener – 0b5vr

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 11:08:26

→日本語で読む Welcome to “Interviews with Demosceners”! This time, we welcome Japanese demoscener 0b5vr, who mainly creates 64K and 4K intros. For many, 0b5vr is best remembered for his 64K demo “0b5vr GLSL Techno Live Set”, released at Revision 2023. In this interview, he talks about how this piece was created, as well as his recent live music performance. He also talks about trends around the Japanese demoscene, like music production with GLSL, machine live, and generative VJ. I also took the cha

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AI Startups and the Case of the Allegedly Missing Trade Secrets

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-15 03:50:02

A second lawsuit filed by an artificial intelligence company alleging a former employee stole trade secrets has been filed in California, just days after Elon Musk’s xAI alleged it had recently experienced corporate espionage. In this case, Scale AI, a leading AI data-labeling firm, sued competitor Mercor Inc. in federal court Wednesday, accusing the startup and a former employee of misappropriating trade secrets to win new business. Scale is valued at approximately $29 billion following a mas

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This YouTube TV discount for existing subscribers is too good to miss

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 18:33:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube TV is getting a temporary $33 discount for existing users. This brings the cost down to $49.99 a month. You only get the discounted price for two months, but a $66 benefit is better than none. If you’ve switched over from a traditional cable TV, you probably know about virtual providers like YouTube TV, DirecTV, or Hulu. However, if you haven’t and want to explore cutting ties with a traditional TV operator, YouTube TV could be one of the more ben

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The best VPNs for school in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-15 20:00:22

As you go back to using school or campus Wi-Fi, always remember the disappointments with these networks. You can't reliably used them to access sites like Netflix, Spotify, or YouTube. They say it's so that to conserve bandwidth, minimize study distractions, or for whatever reason. Sometimes you can't even download educational material from legit sites. More often, students use VPNs to survive the boredom -- and you can too. A virtual private network (VPN) enables you to circumvent school or co

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Fiber Concurrency

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 17:44:26

Fiber Concurrency The :fiber_concurrency plugin enables connections a session to be used seamlessly across fibers managed by a fiber scheduler. This is of particular relevance if the connections are long-lived/persistent. Note that, if you’re using the :persistent plugin, this plugin is required by default. How to use http = HTTPX . plugin ( :fiber_concurrency ) Thread . start do # assuming fiber scheduler is set here 10 . times . each do Fiber . schedule do http . get ( "https://example.com

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Lenovo shows off a concept laptop with a display that rotates to portrait mode

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 21:00:46

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Lenovo has showcased a new concept laptop with a rotating display. The display features a special mechanism that allows switching between landscape and portrait orientations. The concept isn’t coming to the market yet, though it looks close to ready for production. We’ve seen laptops with dual screens. We’ve seen laptops with flexible screens that unfold into larger ones. We’ve even seen laptops with rolling screens that expand for a bigger real estat

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Yes, the Screen on This Lenovo Laptop Really Flips From Horizontal to Vertical

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-15 21:00:40

Walking into a Lenovo showroom can sometimes feel like I accidentally stepped into a taping of the 1990s sitcom Family Matters. I’m there to see the standard, Carl Winslow-level laptops, the tried and true dependable designs. Then steps in Steve Urkel. Behind his technicolor suspenders, he’s holding a giant metal monstrosity he’s calling a head-tracking laptop stand along with a notebook that flips from landscape to portrait. “Did I do that?” the Urkel side of Lenovo says, snickering from the co

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Lenovo's ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept Laptop Has a Swiveling Screen

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-15 21:00:00

Lenovo isn't shy about trying new things. Last year, the PC maker teased a concept laptop with a transparent screen. Earlier this year, the ThinkBook Flip concept employed a flexible OLED display that folded over the top of the laptop lid, ready to flip up whenever you needed the extra screen space. At CES 2025, we saw a ThinkBook with a rollable OLED screen that expanded upward automatically at the touch of a button—this one is a real product you can actually buy. Get ready for another whacky

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Lenovo’s new concept laptop has a rotating screen that’s perfect for doomscrolling

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-10-15 21:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Lenovo has made laptop screens that roll, flip, and go transparent, and now for IFA 2025 it’s announcing a new concept with a screen that can rotate into portrait mode. The Lenovo ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept is a pretty standard-looking 14-inch productivity laptop, but if you nudge the screen’s edge from its top-right corner, the whole

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Elon Musk, AI Startups, and The Case of The Allegedly Missing Trade Secrets

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-15 23:50:02

A second lawsuit filed by an artificial intelligence company alleging a former employee stole trade secrets has been filed in California, just days after Elon Musk’s xAI alleged it had recently experienced corporate espionage. In this case, Scale AI, a leading AI data-labeling firm, sued competitor Mercor Inc. in federal court Wednesday, accusing the startup and a former employee of misappropriating trade secrets to win new business. Scale is valued at approximately $29 billion following a mas

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Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-16 08:49:27

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “c

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Action was the best 8-bit programming language

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2025-10-16 11:25:54

There were many programming languages available for 8-bit computers, the most common being BASIC and Assembly Language, but there were also other lesser-used languages such as Logo, Forth, and Pilot. The languages that would go on to dominate 16-bit computing, C and Pascal, were also available but were usually severely limited. An 8-bit computer generally did not have enough horsepower to run those more complex language compilers. By 1983 Optimized Systems Software (OSS) was renown in the Atari

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The 35 Best Movies on HBO Max Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-10-16 11:00:00

As the birthplace of prestige TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, HBO—and, by extension, HBO Max—is best known for its impressive lineup of original series. The network has also been upping the ante with feature-length content that is the stuff of Oscar dreams. Below is a list of some of our favorite films streaming on HBO Max—from Oscar-winning epics to dystopian sci-fi classics. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our picks for the best shows on HBO Max. If you’re loo

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Should AI Get Legal Rights?

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-10-16 16:05:56

In the often strange world of AI research, some people are exploring whether the machines should be able to unionize. I’m joking, sort of. In Silicon Valley, there’s a small but growing field called model welfare, which is working to figure out whether AI models are conscious and deserving of moral considerations, such as legal rights. Within the past year, two research organizations studying model welfare have popped up: Conscium and Eleos AI Research. Anthropic also hired its first AI welfare

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Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-16 20:01:31

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against education software company PowerSchool, which suffered a massive data breach in December that exposed the personal information of 62 million students, including over 880,000 Texans. PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools and districts, with more than 18,000 customers and supporting over 60 million students worldwide. In January, the education software giant disclosed that its PowerSource customer s

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Why it’s so hard to make a ‘safer’ football helmet

theverge.com Dvora Meyers 2025-10-16 20:30:00

When players take the field at the start of the NFL season, many will be sporting the new, subtly different F7 Pro helmet, which some have speculated might be the safest one football has ever seen. That’s significant for a sport that, over the past two decades, has become as well known for concussions as end zone celebrations. Schutt Sports, which makes the F7 Pro, claims that 35 percent of active NFL athletes have already adopted the helmet. Football is a sport with a traditionalist bent, part

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The most impressive piece of tech hardware I've tested in 2025

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-17 00:40:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Fold 7 has reached the point that it's now the same size as flagship phones when closed. The software upgrades in One UI 8 and Android 16 finally take advantage of the productivity potential of foldables. There are multiples modes in the Fold 7 that make it even better than just a phone that transforms into a tablet. It didn't take long for Samsung's Z Fold 7 to change my mind about fold

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‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ Promises Vampire Intrigue Galore in New Trailer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-17 04:45:26

While Interview With the Vampire fans will have to wait until 2026 to pick back up with that series—retitled The Vampire Lestat for its rock n’ roll-infused third season—Anne Rice’s world expands in just a few weeks with Talamasca: The Secret Order. AMC has just shared a full trailer after that teaser in July, and it teases supernatural secrets, psychic menace, and danger-filled dark rooms. Talamasca runs just six episodes, but AMC is calling it a “first season,” so make of that what you will.

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Samsung's Fold 7 finally made me a believer in foldable phones - 3 reasons why

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-17 08:41:37

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Fold 7 has reached the point that it's now the same size as flagship phones when closed. The software upgrades in One UI 8 and Android 16 finally take advantage of the productivity potential of foldables. There are multiples modes in the Fold 7 that make it even better than just a phone that transforms into a tablet. It didn't take long for Samsung's Z Fold 7 to change my mind about fold

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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-17 05:00:00

Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan last year that bundled a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The company said Thursday that the subscription now gives users access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai without paying extra. The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get access to models like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. Wit

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