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5 features I don’t care about when buying a new phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 18:44:09

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority When it comes to buying a new smartphone, it’s easy to get caught up in all the hype. Manufacturers constantly push the latest and greatest features, leading many of us to buy more phone than we actually need. When I’m in the market for a new phone, I always try to narrow down my options as much as possible. I do that by making a list of not only the features I want in my next smartphone but also those I don’t care about. This approach helps me cut through th

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Report: Apple’s all-new smart home hub is no longer likely to launch this year

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-01-29 16:32:57

The all-new smart home hub was supposed to be Apple’s star of the show this year. There was just one problem: Siri. After a multitude of Siri hiccups and delays, it begun to look more and more unlikely that the product would launch in 2025. Now, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is reporting that a 2026 launch is almost a guarantee. Originally, it seemed all but confirmed that we’d see the Apple smart home hub around March or so. The product was well rumored throughout 2024, and we essentially know every

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Lua beats MicroPython for serious embedded devs

news.ycombinator.com Wilfred Nilsen 2026-01-29 11:16:02

Why Lua Beats MicroPython for Serious Embedded Devs In professional embedded projects, ranging from industrial automation to medical devices and commercial IoT products, developers increasingly favor high-level, lightweight, and easy-to-use environments. While MicroPython has earned praise for rapid prototyping and field deployments on microcontrollers, its active ecosystem is largely centered around hobbyist boards. It is important to note that Python’s greatest strength, its vast library eco

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The Whoop 5.0 Is a Massive Upgrade to Health Tracking. I Wasn’t Ready.

gizmodo.com Claire Maldarelli 2026-01-29 17:00:24

At some point in the late 2010s, I became obsessed with my heart rate. I was at a point in my fitness life that I was training for marathons and I cared a whole lot about every process involved. I spent a certain percentage of my workday staring at my heart rate on my fitness watch and feeling smug if I kept my resting heart rate below 50 beats per minute (bpm) and wigging out if it went over 60 bpm. Heart rate was my gateway drug into health tracking, and it soon devolved into an unhinged compu

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Best VPN for iPhone 2025: Enhance Your Privacy on the Go

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 16:00:00

Downloading a VPN app, creating an account, choosing a plan and connecting to your VPN shouldn't take longer than a minute or so. Nelson Aguilar/CNET With so many iPhone VPN apps available, it can be difficult to choose the right one. Based on our extensive research and hands-on testing of VPNs over the years, these are the factors to look out for when choosing the best VPN for iPhone: Privacy The most important factor to consider with any VPN is privacy. You should never use a VPN provider i

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I tested an Android phone with a built-in smartwatch - my thoughts after a month

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-29 17:00:14

ZDNET's key takeaways The Oukitel WP300 is available now on Amazon for $425 with a $70 off coupon. This modular smartphone has built-in smartwatch and earbud components, as well as a very bright LED light. Like all Oukitel phones I've tested, the WP300 is thick, bulky, and very heavy. View now at Amazon There are certain brands that have carved a niche for themselves, and Oukitel is one of them. The company creates phones and tablets that are rugged enough to withstand the rougher side of wor

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ISRO successfully conducts hot tests of Gaganyaan propulsion system

news.ycombinator.com Authors 2026-01-29 17:19:04

ISRO has successfully conducted two hot tests of the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) at the space agency's Propulsion Complex in Mahendragiri on July 3. The short-duration tests, lasting 30 seconds and 100 seconds respectively, were aimed at validating the test article configuration, ISRO said in a statement on Wednesday (July 8, 2025). Also read: What will Gaganyaan change for India? | Explained "The overall performance of the propulsion system during these hot tests was no

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Edward Burtynsky's monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet

news.ycombinator.com Bill Mckibben 2026-01-29 10:47:00

If there was one absence in Burtynsky’s account of our time, however, it was the single greatest result of all that mining, burning, and consuming: the transformation of the atmosphere. Nothing else comes close in scale to the chemical disruption of the air—the flood of CO 2 now rapidly overheating the Earth and producing a series of changes so titanic they dwarf even the forces that these photos depict. But carbon dioxide is invisible, which is a problem for photographers. That’s why in some w

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What Makes a Car Lovable? It's Not the Tech, It's the Cup Holders

wired.com Carlton Reid 2026-01-29 20:00:00

Nearly 100,000 car buyers of 2025 model-year autos were asked what they thought of their gleaming new rides. The results are revealing, to say the least. Want to know who was the worst performer? That ignominy goes to Audi, with an embarrassing 269 problems reported per 100 vehicles. However, one of the most interesting discoveries of the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (labelled as a “key finding”, no less) concerned not annoyance with the lack of physical buttons, nor, amazingly, intrusive b

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Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-29 03:07:29

In Brief Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post. According to the Post, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended two decades ago) as “mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation.” He also reportedly complained that Stanford “forced my

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, July 13

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 16:42:33

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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Show HN: Pyhoff – Connect Python ML Models to Beckhoff/WAGO IO Hardware

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 14:33:09

Pyhoff Description The pyhoff package allows you to read and write the most common Beckhoff and WAGO bus terminals ("Busklemmen") using the Ethernet bus coupler ("Busskoppler") BK9000, BK9050, BK9100, or WAGO 750_352 over Ethernet TCP/IP based on ModBus TCP. Key Features Supports a wide range of Beckhoff and WAGO analog and digital bus terminals. Very lightweight: no dependencies; compact code base Easy to extend Using standardized ModBus TCP. Provides high-level abstractions for reading

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Kimi k2 largest open source SOTA model?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 11:26:24

📰 Tech Blog | 📄 Paper Link (coming soon) 1. Model Introduction Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. Trained with the Muon optimizer, Kimi K2 achieves exceptional performance across frontier knowledge, reasoning, and coding tasks while being meticulously optimized for agentic capabilities. Key Features Large-Scale Training: Pre-trained a 1T parameter MoE model on 15.5T tokens with zero train

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I Accidentally Learned Just How Durable the Galaxy Z Flip 7 Is

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 11:00:06

If you're concerned about how durable Samsung's foldable phones can be, I'm here to tell you not to worry. And that's especially true when it comes to the new Galaxy Z Flip 7. After less than six hours with the Galaxy Z Flip 7, I accidentally performed my own informal drop test. At a catered affair in Brooklyn, I walked outside to get a view of the waterfront, and when I pulled the Z Flip 7 out of my pocket, I fumbled it. I watched helplessly as Samsung's newest foldable phone fell to the groun

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Our favorite smartphone accessories at Android Authority

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 11:00:04

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s all well and good having a great Android phone, but an ecosystem of accessories can also make for a more enjoyable experience. Just take a look at all the handy add-ons for Galaxy phones and iPhones that you can buy on Amazon or the millions of other retailers — there are so many! Unsurprisingly, we love phone accessories here at Android Authority, but not all of them are created equal. So I thought it would be a good idea to ask my colleagues about thei

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I almost lost my phone number of 20 years, and here’s what I learned

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 12:00:40

Megan Ellis / Android Authority Earlier this month, I received a notification to make a chargeable call on my prepaid SIM card to avoid my number being de-activated. The notification comes whenever I’ve almost gone 90 days without making a chargeable transaction on the network and it serves to keep my number alive. I’ve been able to reliably do this since 2017 when I first switched my mobile plan from a contract to prepaid. But between switching phones and no longer having a copy of the SMS no

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Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach

news.ycombinator.com Rafie Muhammad 2026-01-29 04:41:59

Update 7-12-2025 06:00 UTC: We have observed some activity in regard to one of the backdoors that involves a gf_api_token parameter. The IP address 193.160.101.6 tries to request, for every site, the following URLs with a spoofed user agent: /wp-content/plugins/gravityforms_2.9.12/notification.php?gf_api_token=Cx3VGSwAHkB9yzIL9Qi48IFHwKm4sQ6Te5odNtBYu6Asb9JX06KYAWmrfPtG1eP3&action=ping /wp-content/plugins/gravityforms_2.9.11.1/notification.php?gf_api_token=Cx3VGSwAHkB9yzIL9Qi48IFHwKm4sQ6Te5odNt

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Futureproof Fiber Gives Homeowners an Edge, but Access Isn't Always Fair

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 10:00:00

We live in a fast-evolving digital age, making a high-speed internet connection as essential as running water and electricity. But a lack of affordable internet options perpetuates what is known as the broadband divide -- the gap that divides those who can or can't digitally connect in meaningful ways. A lesser-known discussion point around the broadband divide goes beyond a lack of internet access. Lack of fast internet -- fiber internet, specifically -- negatively affects home values, hurting

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Home Internet 101: Which Internet Connection Is the Best?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 11:00:00

There are different modes of internet access, and here at CNET, we've encountered every type of internet connection out there. Our experts can tell you firsthand the difference the connection type you choose can make. In this guide, we'll cover the different types of connections available, the speeds they offer, their overall quality and price range. Keep in mind that choosing the right connection type for your household will mostly depend on what's available at your address. Some people may be

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War for Westeros, Coming in 2026, Will Let Fans Make Their Own Game of Thrones Ending

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 12:00:04

For a moment in time, fantasy fans were split between whether Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies or HBO's Game of Thrones prestige TV show was the best adaptation of a classic book series. But the Oliphaunt in the room is that the last seasons of the latter plummeted so far in quality that it soured opinions on the show as a whole, especially with its divisive ending. But an upcoming GoT video game adaptation due out in 2026 will give players a chance to set the record straight and make th

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10 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2026-01-29 11:07:00

Other Phones to Consider We test a ton of Android phones. We like the ones below, but you'll be better off with one of the options above. If you haven't yet done so, check out our Best Cheap Phones and Best Folding Phones guides for more. Pixel 9 Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Google Pixel 9 for $699: The Pixel 9 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is a great smartphone, but between the Pixel 9a and the Pixel 9 Pro series, it struggles to stand out. It shares many features with its pricier siblings, but y

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24 hours with Alexa Plus: we cooked, we chatted, and it kinda lied to me

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2026-01-29 14:00:00

I’ve waited two years to try out the new Alexa, which was first announced way back in 2023, and this week I finally got access to Alexa Plus. I’ve now spent 24 hours with Amazon’s generative AI-powered voice assistant, and it’s not just an improvement on the original; it’s an entirely new assistant. Alexa Plus knows more, can do more, and is easier to interact with because it understands more. I can ramble, pause, sigh, cough, change my request mid-sentence, and it can adapt and respond appropr

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Which smartphone has the best battery life? I tested dozens to find the winner

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 15:30:00

If there’s one thing we all want from our next smartphone, it’s more battery life. Thankfully, battery cells are bigger than ever, while processors are increasingly frugal. This means that many, but certainly not all, flagship and mid-range handsets can take us through a day without leaving us suffering from battery anxiety. However, some phones are definitely better than others at lasting through more demanding work/life balances or taking lighter users through a second day. Not to mention, th

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Yes, Motorola's $1,300 Razr Ultra competes with the Galaxy Z Flip 7 (and not just in price)

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2026-01-29 11:10:14

ZDNET's key takeaways The $1,300 Motorola Razr Ultra is a high-performance flip phone with a unique design. Key upgrades make it a compelling option for foldable (and compact) phone enthusiasts, such as the 65W charging speed and 50MP ultrawide lens. The 4,700mAh battery looks great on paper, but yields average endurance from our testing. View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy View now at Motorola more buying choices The Motorola Razr Ultra is one of the most interesting phones I've tested t

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Malware Found in Official GravityForms Plugin Indicating Supply Chain Breach

news.ycombinator.com Rafie Muhammad 2026-01-29 10:41:59

Update 8-11-2025 06:00 UTC: We have observed some activity in regard to one of the backdoors that involves a gf_api_token parameter. The IP address 193.160.101.6 tries to request, for every site, the following URLs with a spoofed user agent: /wp-content/plugins/gravityforms_2.9.12/notification.php?gf_api_token=Cx3VGSwAHkB9yzIL9Qi48IFHwKm4sQ6Te5odNtBYu6Asb9JX06KYAWmrfPtG1eP3&action=ping /wp-content/plugins/gravityforms_2.9.11.1/notification.php?gf_api_token=Cx3VGSwAHkB9yzIL9Qi48IFHwKm4sQ6Te5odNt

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Prime Day is Finally Over But These 142 Deals Are Still Available

wired.com Simon Hill 2026-01-29 12:27:04

Prime Day may be over, but not every deal is dead. These hand-picked Prime Day deals are still on. Whether you're treating yourself or buying a gift, you can still bag a bargain if you’re quick. Everything we highlight has been vetted, tested, and recommended by a member of the WIRED Reviews team. And we cross-check picks with our buying guides and track prices to ensure you're getting genuine discounts worth biting on. Just beware, these deals could end at any moment. Jump to Section: Tech Dea

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How to Watch the Southern Delta Aquariids and Perseids Meteor Showers

wired.com Gretchen Rundorff 2026-01-29 15:00:00

If you want to get into stargazing in 2025, there’s no better place to start than viewing a meteor shower. Meteor showers, or shooting stars, happen when Earth’s orbital path crosses a path of debris left by a comet and that material burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere. Watching a meteor shower is one of the most accessible ways to engage with the night sky. The next showers of the year are the Southern Delta Aquariids—which peak for about a week at the end of July—and the Perseids—which will pe

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, July 12

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 11:55:36

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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2-4 wire converters / hybrids (2009)

news.ycombinator.com Rod Elliott - Elliott Sound Products 2026-01-24 23:37:50

Elliott Sound Products AN-010 2-4 Wire Converters / Hybrids Rod Elliott (ESP) The analogue telephone system is commonly known as the PSTN - public switched telephone network, but is also called POTS - plain old telephone system. It is characterised by the operating voltage of 48V DC supplied from the exchange when the phone is 'on-hook' (not connected to the local exchange), and around 5-12V when 'off-hook' (during a call). It's a 2-wire system, with simultaneous bidirectional communication. D

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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-29 18:56:30

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 Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday that directly challenges proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic with particularly strong performance on coding and autonomous agent tasks. The new model, called Kimi K2, features 1 trillion total

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5 features I don’t care about when buying a new phone

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