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FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses

The first aceclidine-based eye drop to improve near vision in adults with presbyopia, which affects more than 100 million adults in the US alone, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and will be available within three months. Known as VIZZ, from pharmaceutical company LENZ, the drops are an aceclidine ophthalmic solution that effectively treats presbyopia in adults. The once-daily drops offer relief from blurry near. vision for up to 10 hours. "The FDA approval of VIZZ i

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Debounce

Debouncing, in the context of programming, means to discard operations that occur too close together during a specific interval, and consolidate them into a single invocation. Debouncing is very similar to throttling. The key difference is that throttling enforces limits on continuous operations, while debouncing waits for invocations to stop for a specific time to consolidate many noisy invocations into one single invocation. A typical use case of debouncing is when responding to user input.

AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

President Donald Trump's media company, Trump Media, is beta-testing a new AI search feature, Truth Search AI, on the Truth Social platform. The Florida-based company announced the news on Wednesday in a press release. Trump Media and Technology Group is perhaps best known for its social-media program Truth Social. The company is separate from the New York-based Trump Organization. "We're proud to partner with Perplexity to launch our public Beta testing of Truth Social AI, which will make Tru

When Will the iPhone 17 Be Released? We're Running Down the Possibilities

It's fun to speculate on which features the new iPhone 17 lineup will have, but what we really want to know is when we can get our hands on Apple's latest editions of its flagship smartphone. As we get closer to September and the traditional announcement date, iPhone rumors are arriving more frequently. Once the rumored iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, Pro and Pro Max are revealed, we'll be able to confirm speculation about colors, display, cameras and more. We'll also learn how much the new iPhone wi

There's a Tea app for men, and it also has security problems

Tea bills itself as a safety dating app for women, allowing users to anonymously share details about men they have met. A new app called TeaOnHer has emerged that attempts to flip the script, with men sharing information about women they date. And while Tea drew scrutiny last month after a data breach revealed user information, including potentially identifying details such as phone numbers and personal anecdotes, the copycat app seems to be suffering from the same problem. TechCrunch discovere

You Can Still See Bright Fireballs During the Perseids Meteor Shower

Skygazers rejoice, the summer isn't finished with delivering dazzling meteor showers. The last week of July saw dueling meteor showers taking over the sky, but the most popular meteor shower of the year won't hit its peak until next week. The Perseids meteor shower is about to give you a real light show, provided you're far enough away from light pollution to see it. Perseids are known for their bright fireballs and plentiful meteors. The show started on July 17, and will run through Aug. 23.

Google Photos is cooking up a more social way to react to shared pictures (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos looks to be testing an emoji reaction bar for shared albums. New emoji responses are posted as comments, unlike the current heart reaction. We also spotted that the app might open to the “Create” tab by default once it rolls out. Google Photos already lets you show a little love on someone else’s shared picture, but it looks like a new way to express yourself may be coming soon. Like social media and messaging apps, Google Photos could

Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. Let’s all agree to stop

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You Can Now Watch ‘Wednesday’ Season 2’s Haunting Stop-Motion Short

There’s a special spooky treat for stop-motion animation fans embedded within season two of Wednesday: a short that’s another visual dazzler from the mind of Tim Burton. When Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) joins the Nevermore Academy ranks, he and his roomie Eugene (Moosa Mostafa) get to know about the lore of the school’s haunted tree from their dorm RA. In an attempt to scare the young monsters, Ajax (Georgie Farmer) regales them with the tragedy of a brilliant but twisted mind, an outcast who repla

'South Park' Season 27, Episode 2: How to Watch Without Cable

Comedy Central South Park season 27 didn't air a new episode last week, but fans won't have to wait too much longer for the second installment of the satirical show. Episode 2 of the hit animated series drops later today, and you can watch the trailer if you haven't already. After a hectic rollout that included a premiere-date push, South Park's new season is underway and its streaming home is now clear. Per a report from Deadline, five upcoming seasons and the show's back catalog will be on C

Shopify stock soars 21% on rosy guidance as CFO says tariff hit 'did not materialize'

The logo of Shopify is seen outside its headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sept. 28, 2018. Shopify shares soared 21% on Wednesday after the company topped analysts' estimates for the second quarter, and gave rosy guidance for the third quarter. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share: 35 cents adjusted vs. 29 cents 35 cents adjusted vs. 29 cents Revenue: $2.68 billion vs. $2.55 billion Second-quarter sales surged 31% year over ye

Google: Actually, AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Last month, a Pew Research Center report shed light on Google's AI Overviews' effect on web publishing. In short, the analysis painted an abysmal outlook for anyone relying on web traffic. But on Wednesday, Google Search head Liz Reid penned a blog post that puts quite a different spin on things. The Google VP claims traffic from search to websites is "relatively stable" and that click quality has increased. Reid's framing boils down to everything is peachy, and AI is making things better — eve

Consistency over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP theorem

Consistency Over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP Theorem rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. When it comes to distributed systems the CAP theorem is an essential concept. It states that it’s impossible for a distributed database to simultaneously provide Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. The challenge is in the face of a network partition, a database can only b

Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

15 Best Bluetooth Speakers Our Testers Jammed With in 2025

The best Bluetooth speakers have a place near and dear to our hearts, even as we’ve seen smart speakers improving their sound and portability. By (mostly) forgoing Wi-Fi radios and voice assistants, Bluetooth speakers are ultraportable, able to venture into the world and withstand rugged conditions like a sandy beach or a steamy Airbnb jacuzzi. They provide worry-free connection to any smartphone, and the top options offer sound that meets or beats the average smart speaker. We've tested hundre

WB Games’ best PC titles are in this $12 Humble bundle

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The future of Warner Bros. Games is unclear, as it shut down several studios and canceled anticipated games earlier this year. But there’s no arguing that the company’s back catalog of titles is full of gems, many of which are in Humble’s great $12 bundle. Through August 27th, you can jump on this unbeatable deal that gets you 16 WB Games titles on Steam for just $12, with proceeds going to the Raiden Scienc

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

"It’s going to find its way into everything." Nobel laureates met with nuclear experts last month to discuss AI and the end of the world — and if that sounds like the opening to a sci-fi blockbuster set in the apocalypse, you're not alone. As Wired reports, the convened experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes. Exactly why that needs to be true is hard to pin down, but the feeling of inevitability — and anxiety — is palpable in

For regulated industries, AWS’s neurosymbolic AI promises safe, explainable agent automation

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now AWS is banking on the fact that by bringing its Automated Reasoning Checks feature on Bedrock to general availability, it will give more enterprises and regulated industries the confidence to use and deploy more AI applications and agents. It is also hoping that introducing methods like automated reasoning, which utilizes math-based valida

Samsung just quietly started selling the Galaxy Buds 3 FE

TL;DR Samsung has started selling the Galaxy Buds 3 FE in Latin America. The Fan Edition earbuds adopt the design of the Galaxy Buds 3. The company is selling its new earbuds for $129. Samsung is expected to launch a Fan Edition version of the Galaxy Buds 3 soon. How soon? Apparently, sooner than anyone had guessed. The tech giant has just quietly started selling the earbuds. Shortly after leaking an image of the Galaxy Buds 3 FE, Android Headlines spotted the buds listed on Samsung’s Latin

Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks

Google has often bristled at the implication that its obsession with AI search is harming web traffic, and now search head Liz Reid has penned a blog post on the topic. According to Reid, clicks aren't declining, AI is driving more searches, and everything is fine on the Internet. But despite the optimistic tone, the post stops short of providing any actual data to back up those claims. This statement feels like a direct response to a recent Pew Research Center analysis that showed searches wit

A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

TeaOnHer, an app designed for men to share photos and information about women they have supposedly dated, has exposed users’ personal information, including government IDs and selfies, TechCrunch can confirm. The app, which launched on the Apple App Store earlier this week, is a response to another viral app Tea that allows women to post about the men they date. Tea is advertised as a women’s safety app with more than six million users that is similar to “Are we dating the same guy?” Facebook n

Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in aggregate. Instead, the search giant says that total organic click volume from its search engine to websites has been “relatively stable” year-over-year and that average click quality has slightly increased. “This data is in contrast to third-party reports that inaccurately suggest dramatic declines in agg

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by going through a process of drafting, searching for information, an

Android can now give you a heads up when your phone’s time zone changes

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android can now alert you when your device’s time zone has been automatically updated. This alert will come in the form of a notification, but you have to opt-in, first. The feature is live in the July 2025 Android Canary release and may roll out in the Android 16 QPR2 stable update. Update 1, August 6, 2025 (02:15 PM ET): The “time zone change” feature described below didn’t go live in the stable release of Android 16, but it’s finally available in the J

Gemini's new Guided Learning mode can quiz students and create interactive study aids

Google is updating Gemini to make it a better education tool with a new feature called Guided Learning. Like similar learning-focused updates to ChatGPT and Claude, Guided Learning tries to promote understanding by breaking down problems into step-by-step instructions, follow-up questions and interactive examples, rather than simply providing an answer. Guided Learning will be available as toggle in the prompt box of Gemini as the feature rolls out. When it's toggled on, Gemini will treat quest

Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

The 12 Most Effective Cardio Workouts

Cardio is more than just running laps or hopping on a bike. It's any movement that gets your heart pumping, your body sweating and your energy levels soaring. Whether you're chasing a weight loss goal or looking to boost endurance, there's a cardio workout that fits your mood and motivation. Not into high-impact moves? Go for swimming or a rowing session that's easier on the joints. Want something that pushes your limits? Sprinting or HIIT might be your jam. Cardio is flexible and lets you mix i

Declutter Your Kitchen: Pro Chefs Detail the Most Useless Kitchen Tools

Our kitchens are filled with tools and gadgets that are supposed to make whipping up dinner easier. While essential kitchen utensils can speed up the process, not every option available is worth stuffing into your cabinets. A quality knife or kitchen shears are more versatile options that won't end up sitting in a drawer taking up space and collecting dust. Instead of chasing every buzzy new appliance, it pays to stick with gear that's functional, reliable and actually makes your life easier. T