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Apple tells students ‘how to convince your parents to get you a Mac’ [Video]

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-14 14:19:05

Apple kicked off its annual Back to School promotion earlier this week, offering free AirPods and other accessories with the purchase of a new Mac or iPad. Now, as Back to School season ramps up, Apple has shared a humorous new video telling college students “how to convince your parents to get you a Mac.” The seven-minute video was posted to Apple’s YouTube channel today. It features incoming college students practicing how to pitch their parents on getting them a Mac instead of a PC for coll

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Forget Ray-Bans: The $399 Meta Oakley smart glasses are better in almost every way

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-14 14:25:00

Mark Zuckerberg Several months ago, reports emerged that Meta was looking to expand beyond its current smart glasses lineup into sportier versions. Now the glasses are officially here. On Friday, Meta launched limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model glasses. Staying true to the brand, the Meta version of the glasses keeps the form factor Oakley is known for, with a more flexible and rugged design that still allows athletes to take advantage of the smart glasses' capabilities, such as filming, l

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NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth's Oxygen and Magnetic Field

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 14:21:31

The solar wind flows around Earth's magnetic field. A new NASA study suggests that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and strength of the magnetic field have been correlated for more than half a billion years. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Laboratory For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists. The research suggests tha

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Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Review: Great Value Gaming

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-09-14 14:03:00

It's AMD's turn. After months of $2,000+ GPUs and long discussions of DLSS, we're finally on the red team's turf. AMD's strength historically lies at the budget end of the spectrum, where the majority of gamers are playing at 1080p, and spending $1,000 or less for their entire system. Even though we really recommend splurging on a GPU, that's just not the reality for most folks. An $800 GPU needs $1,200 in other parts, and at that point most people who aren't into PC gaming will start shopping

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This Marshall Bluetooth speaker sounds better than audio systems I've tested that cost twice the price

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-14 18:28:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Marshall Killburn III Bluetooth speaker is available on Amazon for $379. With rich, dynamic bass and a wide soundstage, you'll enjoy music of all genres with this speaker You might run into trouble pairing the speaker with the Marshall app (as I had). $379.99 at Amazon $379.99 at B&H Photo-Video $379.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices I'm quite familiar with the Marshall brand and its lineup of audio products. I have a Marshall amp that sounds brilliant (much bett

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How to clear your Android phone cache (and why you should do it before installing Android 16)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-09-14 18:30:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google recently released Android 16 to Pixel devices and select OEMs, bringing performance improvements, new Material You changes, and more upgrades. If you want to try this update but are hesitant because you've noticed your Android phone or tablet already feels too sluggish, clearing app and browser caches can give it a fresh boost and free up some storage space. Over time, cached data can accumulate, become corrupted, or simply get outdated, which may slow down

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A '70s performance artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-12 04:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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LEGO Joins Early Prime Day With Star Wars Millennium Falcon at a New Record-Low Price

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-14 18:40:07

Star Wars fans are, historically, pretty committed to what they love. It makes them incredibly easy to buy presents for, because basically anything that’s related to Star Wars is a good shout, and it’s going to be really well received too. It can be hard to find a quality gift though, whether you’re looking for yourself or someone else. These days, one of the best gifts you can give any of them, outside of a trip to Disney World, is a good Lego set. See at Amazon Lego sets hold their value wel

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New Study Backs Controversial Claim of 23,000-Year-Old Human Footprints in New Mexico

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-14 18:55:09

In 2021, researchers working in New Mexico published a paper that contributed to what remains one of the most controversial topics in American archaeology. The study describes human footprints in White Sands National Park dating to between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago, making them the oldest-known footprints in North America. This challenges long-held beliefs that the first North Americans were the Clovis people—named after artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico—who arrived between 13,000 and 13

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Calorie restriction can help animals live longer. What about humans?

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-09-15 01:00:00

But the full picture is not so simple. Weight loss isn’t always healthy and neither is restricting your calorie intake, especially if your BMI is low to begin with. Some scientists warn that, based on evidence in animals, it could negatively impact wound healing, metabolism and bone density. This week let’s take a closer look at the benefits—and risks—of caloric restriction. Eating less can make animals live longer. This remarkable finding has been published in scientific journals for the last

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Your TV's USB port has an underutilized benefit that can revitalize an old system

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-15 00:00:14

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Recently, I wrote about the various uses of the USB ports that come standard on the back or side of any smart TV. In this article, I'm focusing on one particular important use: installing firmware updates using a USB device. Also: How to disable ACR on your TV (and why doing so makes such a big difference) Updates are essential because they ensure your TV has the latest software, features, and security patches. Most smart TVs are designed to automatically check for and install

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Finally, cheap wireless earbuds that I wouldn't mind putting my AirPods away for

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-09-15 02:42:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The CMF Buds 2 Plus are the most premium pair of earbuds from the Nothing sub-brand. At $69, they're one of the best-sounding and most feature-rich earbuds in the price segment. The way these earbuds are designed makes them not ideal for side sleepers. $69 at Amazon The latest Nothing CMF Buds 2 Plus sit above the CMF Buds Pro 2 in price hierarchy and offer similar sound, better call quality, and longer battery life. They fit well and there's not much to fault at that $6

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Finally, a $150 Android smartwatch I wouldn't mind putting away my expensive Garmin for

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-15 02:48:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazfit Active 2 Square is available in a premium package for $149.99 that includes leather and silicone bands The watch is small, lasts up to 10 days, incorporates high end sapphire glass and stainless steel materials, and has a brilliant large 1.75-inch AMOLED display There is limited onboard storage for maps and music while the software may also be overwhelming. View now at Amazon I recently reviewed Amazfit's Active 2 Smartwatch, and it was one of my favorite wea

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FInally, a robot mower that effortlessly cuts grass for me - no boundary wire required

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-15 03:01:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy E15 Robot Mower for yards up to 0.2 acres is available for $1,800, while the Eufy E18 covers up to 0.3 acres and costs $2,000 This robot mower uses visual recognition, AI algorithms, and 3D sensors to distinguish the boundaries of a lawn and avoid obstacles in real time While it's good for smaller yards, I'd recommend it for fenced-in, flat yards, as it can get stuck on uneven terrain. $1,599.99 at Amazon $1,599.99 at Walmart more buying choices Amazon is curren

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He '70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to 'Garbage Men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-12 14:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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Learn Makefiles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 00:05:55

I built this guide because I could never quite wrap my head around Makefiles. They seemed awash with hidden rules and esoteric symbols, and asking simple questions didn’t yield simple answers. To solve this, I sat down for several weekends and read everything I could about Makefiles. I've condensed the most critical knowledge into this guide. Each topic has a brief description and a self contained example that you can run yourself. If you mostly understand Make, consider checking out the Makefi

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This Retro Gaming Keyboard Hits All the Right Nostalgia Vibes and It's a Great Keyboard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 03:00:06

As a child of the '90s few things get my nerd brain tingling like good ol' Super Mario. Even hearing my best friend's Mario-themed phone notifications take me back to a simpler time. So it's no surprise that I completely nerded out when I saw 8BitDo's Retro Mechanical Keyboard decked out in Mario colors. A solid mechanical keyboard with a heavy dose of nostalgia? Count me in. If the Mario theme isn't up your alley, the Retro is available in a few different versions, each pulling something from

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A False Start on the Road to an All-American Bitcoin

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-09-15 01:30:00

US president Donald Trump waited a beat to soak up the applause. In front of a baying crowd of bitcoiners at crypto conference Bitcoin 2024 in July, he had just laid out his plan to turn the US into the world’s undisputed bitcoin mining superpower. “I want it to be mined, minted, and made in the USA,” he told the audience. “You’re going to be very happy with me—you’re going to be so happy.” Since returning to the White House, Trump has largely followed through on his crypto-related pledges: He

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Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-09-15 02:00:00

This week, WIRED has been helping readers (that’s you!) learn how to win a fight, from understanding the tactics of the Tesla Takedown movement to knowing how to out-troll a troll. We also put together a zine that collects some of the most helpful tidbits in a handy format you can print, fold, and share with friends and family. The zine, which you can download below, condenses crucial advice from multiple articles in a single sheet of printer paper. The adapted articles include tips from WIRED

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'28 Years Later' Director Danny Boyle Says Shooting on iPhones Let Him Capture 'Startling' Violence

wired.com Jake Kleinman 2025-09-15 03:00:00

In 2001, Danny Boyle had a problem. To make his new postapocalyptic horror movie, 28 Days Later, he had to capture footage of a then-unknown Cillian Murphy wandering the abandoned streets of London. Shutting down the city wasn’t an option for the low-budget production, however, and neither was re-creating it on a studio set. Instead, the 68-year-old director made a surprising choice: He filmed with lightweight, low-resolution Canon digital cameras. The technology, which was cutting-edge at the t

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Concha Sol Hearing Aids Review: Feeling Dated

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-09-15 03:00:00

Concha Labs has been making over-the-counter hearing aids since 2017, marketing just one product—the Concha Sol. The hearing aids have a familiar design, a classic behind-the-ear configuration with a simple rocker control on the back of each. Concha particularly touts its customizability: The Sol come in your choice of four colors, and can be configured with lead wires in four different sizes, though it should be noted that many competing hearing aids have lead wires that can be adjusted on the

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MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-15 02:20:00

Why it matters: As the use of generative AI becomes increasingly common in education, law, politics, media, and other fields, many worry that reliance on the technology may reduce cognitive independence. A recent study from MIT strongly supports this concern, indicating that the use of digital tools significantly alters brain activity. The newly published paper explains that as participants in an experiment wrote a series of essays, electronic brain monitoring revealed substantially weaker conn

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Samsung’s upcoming earthquake warning system goes beyond what Google offers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-15 02:06:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is preparing a new earthquake warning system that’s more refined than Google’s broader system for Android. The feature will allow Galaxy users to set a custom magnitude threshold for alerts. Users can also preview earthquake warnings and set different thresholds for day and night. Samsung is upgrading earthquake alerts on Galaxy phones with more features than what Google’s built-in Android system currently offers. Google’s version is a straightfor

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Here’s My Experience With 5 Cheap Gadgets I Bought From AliExpress

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-15 01:49:00

If you're shopping online, you may have noticed products from Temu and AliExpress often come up in your shopping search. These items are so cheap that you may wonder if it's really a steal or if you should stay away. I was in that boat as well. And I love a good YouTube video where the host tests cheap tech from low-cost retailers. So, curious as I am, I decided to try my hand at testing cheap home products from the popular discount marketplace, AliExpress. Now, when shopping for a new piece of

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Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 05:22:59

Git Smart Squash Use AI to transform your messy commit history into clean, logical commits that reviewers will love Why Use Git Smart Squash? Ever spent 30 minutes reorganizing commits before a PR? We've all been there. Git Smart Squash uses AI to automatically organize your changes into logical, well-structured commits in seconds. What It Does Before (your typical feature branch): * 7f8d9e0 fix tests * 6c5b4a3 typo * 5a4b3c2 more auth changes * 4d3c2b1 WIP: working on auth * 3c2b1a0 updat

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FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 03:07:43

JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN AND Agreement No. NTIS-1832. Renewed and Amended April 28, 2009. Each month NTIS will select between ten and twenty non-copyrighted videotapes from available stock in its collection and ship them to PRO at its own expense. Immediately upon receipt, PRO will, at its own expense, digitize the videotape and return the videotape and a copy in digital video disk (DVD) format to NTIS. The videotape and the DVD copy are both considered to be property of the United States Gove

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Infinite Mac OS X

news.ycombinator.com Posted 2025-09-15 02:16:57

tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who lived through that period, I can tell you that it wasn’t much better on real hardware. Infinite HD has also been rebuilt to have some notable indie software from that era. Porting PearPC I’ve been tracking DingusPPC progress since my initial port and making the occasional contribution myself, with the hope of using it to run Mac OS X in Infinite

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Scammers hijack real support pages to show fake phone numbers

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-15 06:09:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Bottom line: A recent warning from Malwarebytes explains that users searching for tech support phone numbers can encounter fake contact information, even when visiting the official websites of major brands. Users should carefully examine text appearing in support site search bars and approach sponsored Google search results with caution, if at all. Many people likely understand that they should ver

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Tech giants unleash AI on weather forecasts: are they any good?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-15 06:02:58

A wave of machine-learning weather models have been unleashed by some of the very biggest businesses on the planet. These challenge the orthodoxy of traditional physics-based computer forecasts that have been incrementally developed and improved over many decades. But are the machine learning models any good? The weather is a national obsession for us Brits, and it is no wonder given the huge changes that are seen and felt from one day to the next.

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Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

cnbc.com Kate Rooney 2025-09-15 06:55:12

At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses. When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang last week as part of a $14.3 billion investment in the artificial intelligence startup, he was apparently just getting started. Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever's star

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Apple tells students ‘how to convince your parents to get you a Mac’ [Video]

Forget Ray-Bans: The $399 Meta Oakley smart glasses are better in almost every way

NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth's Oxygen and Magnetic Field

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This Marshall Bluetooth speaker sounds better than audio systems I've tested that cost twice the price

How to clear your Android phone cache (and why you should do it before installing Android 16)

A '70s performance artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

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New Study Backs Controversial Claim of 23,000-Year-Old Human Footprints in New Mexico

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Your TV's USB port has an underutilized benefit that can revitalize an old system

Finally, cheap wireless earbuds that I wouldn't mind putting my AirPods away for

Finally, a $150 Android smartwatch I wouldn't mind putting away my expensive Garmin for

FInally, a robot mower that effortlessly cuts grass for me - no boundary wire required

He '70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to 'Garbage Men'

Learn Makefiles

This Retro Gaming Keyboard Hits All the Right Nostalgia Vibes and It's a Great Keyboard

A False Start on the Road to an All-American Bitcoin

Print. Fold. Share. Download WIRED's How to Win a Fight Zine Here

'28 Years Later' Director Danny Boyle Says Shooting on iPhones Let Him Capture 'Startling' Violence

Concha Sol Hearing Aids Review: Feeling Dated

MIT brain scans suggest that using GenAI tools reduces cognitive activity

Samsung’s upcoming earthquake warning system goes beyond what Google offers

Here’s My Experience With 5 Cheap Gadgets I Bought From AliExpress

Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs

FedFlix — Public Domain Stock Footage Library

Infinite Mac OS X

Scammers hijack real support pages to show fake phone numbers

Tech giants unleash AI on weather forecasts: are they any good?

Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

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