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Forget Anker, UGREEN 4-Port USB-C Charger Drops to Almost Free and Has the Amazon’s Choice Badge

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-21 19:10:05

Do ever find your different devices fighting for that one available outlet? It’s annoying having to make the tough call to which you’ll plug in, your phone or your laptop. You can connect one and then go plug in the other into a different outlet I suppose, but then it’s all the way on the other side of the room sometimes. Utterly useless. Get yourself a solid wall charger block that can handle all your devices at once. The UGREEN 65W USB-C charger has multiple ports to plug into and can recharge

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Best Buy Clears Out Samsung 10,000mAh Power Bank at 50% Off, Bringing It Close to a Near-Free Price

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-21 19:40:46

Listen here, folks. This 10,000mAh Samsung power bank is down nearly 50% for a limited time. That brings the price to just $23 (down from $45). It’s equipped with two USB-C ports along with wireless charging panel. This means you can charge up three devices at once. Plug in your laptop and your phone while you’re smartwatch is recharging as well. And it’s is compact so it can store easily in a backpack or messenger bag. See at Best Buy 10,000mAh is the total energy this power bank holds. To pu

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Starlink vs. T-Mobile 5G Home Internet: Which Provider Delivers the Best Service?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 19:00:00

T-Mobile made headlines by partnering with Starlink for a direct-to-cell mobile service -- effectively broadening T-Mobile's reliability and availability as a cellphone carrier. But in terms of broadband, how do these providers compare? T-Mobile and Starlink are some of the biggest names in rural broadband. T-Mobile's 5G Home Internet is a crowd-pleaser, and is often favored in customer satisfaction surveys, and Starlink has effectively revolutionized satellite internet with its fleet of low Ea

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If You Have a PS5, the PlayStation DualSense Controller Costs Peanuts on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-22 03:08:58

If you own a PS5, having multiple controllers is almost a necessity as there’s nothing better than sharing your favorite PlayStation games with friends or family in the same room. While it’s always wise to have a spare controller ready for multi-player sessions or simply as a backup for you, genuine discounts on the PlayStation DualSense wireless controller are rare. Even during Black Friday, major promotions were hard to find which makes this moment the perfect opportunity to add another contr

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, June 16

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 20:11:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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FIFA Club World Cup Soccer: Stream Palmeiras vs. Porto Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 00:00:04

Portuguese team Porto gets its FIFA Club World Cup campaign underway with an intriguing Group A matchup against Brazilian giant Palmeiras in New Jersey on Sunday. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch every match of the tournament as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are, along with a full fixture list. Both of these teams expect to progress from a pool that also includes Egypt's Al-Ahly and

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How to Out-Troll the Trolls, as Told by the Internet’s Foremost Posters

wired.com Evy Kwong 2025-09-22 03:00:00

Between the Reply Guys playing devil’s advocate and the shitposters spamming disinformation for fun, today’s trolls play in a completely different league from the keyboard warriors of yesteryear. And they don’t just troll randomly for lolz. They latch on to their targets, hoping to get a rise by spreading their brand of hate—whether racist, sexist, homophobic, or all of the above—relentlessly and more organized than ever before. Fortunately, a new generation of online avengers has emerged to pu

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Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-22 02:25:35

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. If you’ve been having flashbacks to 2007 while using your PC over the past few days, you’re not alone. Microsoft has mistakenly replaced Windows 11’s boot sound — in test versions of the OS — with the startup chime from Windows Vista. Windows testers started noticing the issue shortly after Microsoft released its latest Dev Channel build of Windows 11 on Friday afternoon. The

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Studio555 raises $4.6M to build playable app for interior design

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-09-22 04:00:00

Studio555 announced today that it has raised €4 million, or about $4.6 million in a seed funding round. It plans to put this funding towards creating a playable app, a game-like experience focused on interior design. HOF Capital and Failup Ventures led the round, with participation from the likes of Timo Soininen, co-founder of Small Giant Games; Mikko Kodisoja, co-founder of Supercell; and Riccardo Zacconi, co-founder of King. Studio555’s founders include entrepreneur Joel Roos, now the CEO, C

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Play Store search tab pops with color in latest Material 3 Expressive refresh

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 03:31:08

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Play Store is getting a taste of Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language with colorful new icons in the search tab. The new icons make search shortcuts more vibrant and easier to tell apart at a glance. The update was spotted on version 46.5.19 of the Play Store app and seems to be a server-side change. Google is rolling out a colorful and visually appealing update to the Play Store’s search tab. The tab now features colorful new icons ins

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Apple Fitness could benefit greatly from one simple expansion

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-22 01:00:48

Apple has definitely built up quite a compelling ecosystem around the Apple Watch. Between all of its fitness challenges, activity rings, and competitions – Apple has certainly found a way to make exercise fun for a lot of people. The problem? Some people simply don’t like the form factor of a smartwatch. The proposal To put it short, I think Apple should allow third party health trackers to integrate with the Apple Fitness app. The catch? It’d be tied into an Apple Fitness+ subscription. App

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Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise

news.ycombinator.com Mirza 2025-09-20 08:22:06

Benchmark corpus To compile our benchmark corpus, we utilized a broad list of sources (Methods), ranging from completely novel, manually crafted questions over university exams to semi-automatically generated questions based on curated subsets of data in chemical databases. For quality assurance, all questions have been reviewed by at least two scientists in addition to the original curator and automated checks. Importantly, our large pool of questions encompasses a wide range of topics and que

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DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 20:40:40

In a series of recent tests in New Mexico, the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away. Over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred. Previously, the greatest reported distance records for an appreciable amount of optical power (>1 microwat

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Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

news.ycombinator.com About The Author 2025-09-22 05:38:17

Thanks to war, geopolitics, and climate change, Europe will have more frequent and more severe internet disruptions in the very near future. Governments and businesses need to prepare for catastrophic loss of communications. Unfortunately, the necessary changes are risky and expensive, which means they won’t do it until a crisis is already here. However, small groups of volunteers with a little bit of time and money can provide crucial initial leadership to bootstrap recovery. An Internet Resil

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The Switch 2 Proves Nintendo Never Misses on Music

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-21 09:00:28

Nintendo is a lot of things to a lot of people for a lot of different reasons. Mario helps, and so do the host of other iconic first-party titles and the movies, toys, theme parks, and endless other IP offshoots they spawned. But beyond how Nintendo looks and plays and sells, it also has a sound, and thanks to the Switch 2, that sound is just as iconic as ever this time around. Seriously, though, listen to the Mario Kart World soundtrack right now. There’s a lot of newfangled Switch 2 music I l

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How to set up a WhatsApp account without Facebook or Instagram

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 00:00:24

There's no shortage of reasons to stay off the Meta ecosystem, which includes Facebook and Instagram, but there are some places where WhatsApp remains the main form of text-based communication. The app is a great alternative to SMS, since it offers end-to-end encryption and was one of the go-to methods to send uncompressed photos and videos between iPhone and Android users before Apple adopted RCS. Even though Facebook, which later rebranded to Meta, acquired WhatsApp in 2014, it doesn't require

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Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain

news.ycombinator.com Natsuko Fukue 2025-09-21 19:53:02

Japan's Studio Ghibli turns 40 this month with two Oscars and legions of fans young and old won over by its complex plots and fantastical hand-drawn animation. But the future is uncertain, with latest hit "The Boy and the Heron" likely — but not certainly — the final feature from celebrated co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, now 84. In March, the internet was flooded with pictures in Studio Ghibli's distinctively nostalgic style after the release of OpenAI's newest image generator — raising questions o

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Show HN: Seastar – Build and dependency manager for C/C++ with Cargo's features

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 22:36:32

Seastar Seastar is a fast, extensible build system for C, C++, and maybe soon, Rust and Zig as well. I believe that it should be easy to make, prototype, and iterate upon designs. While C is still one of our most widely used languages, it makes it hard to create programs easily, especially for beginners. Instead, Seastar aims to be more like Rust's tooling with cargo , but supporting seamless compilation across more languages. Running Seastar is very simple to build and run. Assuming you have

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First 2D, non-silicon computer developed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 21:26:43

The team used metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) — a fabrication process that involves vaporizing ingredients, forcing a chemical reaction and depositing the products onto a substrate — to grow large sheets of molybdenum disulfide and tungsten diselenide and fabricate over 1,000 of each type of transistor. By carefully tuning the device fabrication and post-processing steps, they were able to adjust the threshold voltages of both n- and p-type transistors, enabling the construction

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Telephone Exchanges in the UK

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 22:33:43

For more than a century the telephone exchange has formed the backbone of our telecommunications system. A vast array of more than 5,500 mostly nondescript buildings sit unnoticed on city, town or village streets, and quietly link up more than 254 million kilometres of cables and wires – keeping people in the UK connected to each other and the rest of the world. Since the first telephone exchange was established in London in 1879 with just eight subscribers, these anonymous looking buildings ha

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Behold, a Shadowy Full Look at the New He-Man

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-21 23:06:06

Amazon MGM’s upcoming Masters of the Universe movie just got a bit more real thanks another, more complete look at its musclebound lead, He-Man. Portrayed in the upcoming film by Nicolas Galtizine, the British actor released a picture of himself as Adam of Grayskull’s heroic persona, albeit from the back and bathed in shadow. The picture comes with the news that filming has wrapped, and Galtizine called it “an honour shouldering the responsibility of playing Adam and He-Man. It’s been the role

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, June 15

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 06:53:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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FIFA Club World Cup Soccer: Stream PSG vs. Atlético Madrid Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 19:00:04

Recently crowned Champions League winner Paris Saint-Germain returns to action on Sunday as it takes on Spain's Atlético Madrid in this first Group B match of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch every match of the tournament as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are, along with a full fixture list. French Ligue 1 champion PSG comes into this game at the Rose Bo

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 16, #736

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 23:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for June 16, #1458

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 23:00:05

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 16, #470

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 23:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle will hit all the right notes with musicians. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET's NYT

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-21 22:14:24

In Brief Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls. Bloomberg reports that Taiwan’s International Trade Administration placed the two companies and their subsidiaries on an updated list of entities designated as strategic high-tech commodities. That means Taiwanese businesses will need government approval before they can ship anything to either company. As a result, Huawei and SMIC will lose acces

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Stolen iPhones disabled by Apple's anti-theft tech after Los Angeles looting

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-22 00:02:00

What just happened? As protests against federal immigration enforcement swept through downtown Los Angeles last week, a wave of looting left several major retailers, including Apple, T-Mobile, and Adidas, counting the cost of smashed windows and stolen goods. Yet for those who made off with iPhones from Apple's flagship store, the thrill of the heist quickly turned into a lesson in high-tech security. Apple's retail locations are equipped with advanced anti-theft technology that renders display

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Lenovo Legion Go S with Steam OS fixes so much, but can it beat a Steam Deck?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:30:43

Lenovo Legion Go S - Powered By Steam OS The Lenovo Legion Go S with Steam OS is light years ahead of its Windows-powered counterpart. Not only does Steam OS fix a lot of Windows' problems, but it also drops the price by $130. This makes the Legion Go S with Steam OS a viable competitor to the Steam Deck. It's well worth a look if you prioritize a large display, variable refresh rates, and offset sticks. When I reviewed the Lenovo Legion Go S — the one powered by Windows 11 — I did something I

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The Moto G Stylus (2025) is finally a budget Motorola phone for power users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 20:30:54

Moto G Stylus (2025) The Moto G Stylus (2025) feels like Motorola pulled together almost everything that's worked about its best budget phones and put it into one device. It charges quickly, performs well, and comes with a built-in stylus that's way easier than drawing with a fingertip. I'm begging for longer update support, but otherwise, this is a great cheap Android phone. Motorola’s budget lineup has been through some tricky evolutions over the years. It’s added and removed options on both

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