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How to Change Your Kindle’s Language: Spanish, French, Japanese, and More (2025)

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-09-20 15:17:21

Looking to learn a new language? Reading is a great way to start, and you don't need a physical book to do it: Here's how to change your Kindle's language (and download books in other languages!) to learn right from your favorite e-reader. Reading a different language helps you expand your vocabulary and nail down nuances like sentence structure, and for visual learners like myself it can be the ideal way to start really learning information. Lucky for all of us e-reader lovers, Kindle's ebook

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What to expect from Amazon's event on September 30

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 07:00:35

Amazon will host a press event at the end of the month with some new hardware developments. It's scheduled for September 30 at 10AM ET in New York City. Here's what we think will be discussed at the fall event. In February, Amazon introduced some improvements to its voice assistant, promising that Alexa+ would be more conversational and more helpful thanks to generative AI. It seems likely that the fall event will put hardware for interacting with Alexa+ front and center, so expect to hear abou

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How Nissan leveraged its driver assist to cut traffic jams

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-23 11:17:12

Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Instead, CCM works by having a lead car, or "probe," send information to following CCM-equipped cars, which are separated by non-CCM cars between them. The information from the probe car lets the following cars keep an appropriate distance from each other—between 30 and 60 seconds—and if there's a slow down ahead, the following cars will decelerate more gently over time, preventing the kind of concertina action that triggers traffic jams when human driv

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watchOS 26 is now available, here’s what’s new for Apple Watch

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-09-25 07:09:22

Apple has released watchOS 26, the latest major update for Apple Watch. The new version is available as a free update starting today for compatible devices. Here’s where to get started after updating. watchOS 26 introduces a refined design highlighted by Liquid Glass, which gives apps, widgets, notifications, and the Control Center a more expressive look. The Smart Stack gets smarter with new hints that surface relevant widgets, and a new wrist flick gesture makes it easier to dismiss alerts o

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watchOS 26 is now available with a new wrist flick gesture and Notes on your wrist

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-25 07:06:29

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. Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language is subtler on the Apple Watch. Image: Apple One of the biggest changes coming to all of Apple’s operating systems is the company’s new Liquid Glass design language that updates windows, notifications, app icons, and o

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Amazon sets the date for what sounds like a big fall hardware event

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 15:08:25

Amazon TL;DR Amazon has scheduled a Devices & Services event for September 30. It’s been just about a year now since Amazon’s last major hardware launches. The invitation’s teaser imagery hints at Kindle, Fire, and Echo news. With summer rapidly drawing to a close, there’s not much time left for companies to get their 2025 hardware lineups ready to go ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season. This year’s already brought us some spectacular devices from many of our favorite brands,

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Amazon may be announcing new Echo and Kindle devices on September 30

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-25 15:20:44

Amazon has a press event scheduled for September 30 at 10AM ET. Panos Panay, who leads the company's Devices & Services team, will be on hand. This strongly suggests that Amazon will announce some new hardware. We don't exactly know what the company will reveal, but we do have a giant clue. The press invite also included a composite image of various Amazon devices. These appear to include a Kindle ereader, a Fire TV of some kind and an Echo speaker. Those are three of the company's biggest prod

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Spotify Free now lets you play a specific track on demand

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-25 23:41:32

Spotify Free comes with enough limitations that the company hopes it will persuade you to upgrade to a premium subscription. But one of the four limits is being removed from today … Unlike Apple Music, which offers paid subscriptions only (aside from a limited free trial), Spotify offers the choice of free and premium subscriptions. Spotify Free has so far had four major drawbacks: Interruptions from ads Lower audio quality Limited ability to skip unwanted tracks Shuffle-only playback on m

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Free Spotify users can finally listen to any track immediately

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-25 23:00:13

There must be something in the water at Spotify HQ. Less than a week after delivering long-promised lossless audio, the company has another treat. Free listeners can finally listen to any track they want. After enhancing Premium, perhaps Spotify figured it could add a free perk without shedding subscribers. Spotify accounts on the free plan can now choose any track and immediately listen to it. Previously, that was paywalled for Premium subscribers. Non-paying ones had to shuffle through an alb

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How to Inspire K-12 Students to Study in Computing Disciplines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Byte-A-Dynamo Workshops

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-09-29 02:15:55

Software engineering shouldn’t be gatekept to people who can afford an expensive degree. Recently, one group has been working hard to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science teaching to students (ages 10-16) from low-income families in Maryland who have no or minimal computing backgrounds. Computing isn’t just for the elite; it’s for anyone with curiosity and creativity. But resources and training aren’t always widely accessible. That’s why a series of free workshops was introd

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Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-29 02:18:21

Countless users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis" that's alarming mental health professionals. Some even say the tech could give birth to entirely new categories of mental disorders. The grim trend has already been linked to several deaths, including the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, which has led to his family suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, accusing it of product liability and wrongful death. In fact, even Wall Street is starting to grow uncomfort

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From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-09-29 11:39:43

New York City students are one week into the statewide phone ban. Gothamist reporters checked in with teens across the district to see how they are adapting. Here's how they are handling their disconnected days. Lower-tech life Polaroids, walkie-talkies and decks of cards: New York City teens said these are some of the hot items circulating in schools now that the statewide smartphone ban is in effect. Alia Soliman, a senior at Bronx Science, said cards “are making a big comeback.” She said kids

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Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-30 19:59:34

Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns "What starts out as a dare, a challenge, a bit of fun in a school setting can ultimately lead to children taking part in damaging attacks on organisations or critical infrastructure," said Heather Toomey, Principal Cyber Specialist at the ICO. It is warning teachers that they are failing to understand and recognise what it calls the "insider threat" pupils pose. School children and college students are carrying out hacks and accessi

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US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

news.ycombinator.com Ma Is An Associated Press National Writer Who Covers Education. 2025-10-02 17:45:46

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from the National Assessment of Education Progress. The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eight

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Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-03 15:44:20

SpaceX just fired off one of the biggest shots yet in the spectrum wars, agreeing to pay $17 billion to take over a massive chunk of wireless airwaves from EchoStar for Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell services. The deal is the most aggressive signal yet that SpaceX wants to rule the satellite-to-phone market. The significance of the sale, which sees SpaceX paying a mix of $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock, centers around a finite resource: spectrum. Spectrum refers to the range o

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watchOS 26 adds four brand new watch faces, including an Ultra exclusive

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-03 19:01:29

Today Apple unveiled brand new Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 models, showing off some new watch faces in the process. But as revealed in the watchOS 26 RC notes, these faces are coming to older models too. Here are the four new watch faces in watchOS 26. New watch faces are coming in watchOS 26, here are the details When watchOS 26 was unveiled back in June, Apple didn’t announce any brand new watch faces. Instead, the only news on the face front included changes to the Photos

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Apple announces watchOS 26 release date: Here’s what’s coming to your Apple Watch

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-04 07:46:28

At its ‘Awe Dropping’ Apple Event, Apple today announced the release date of its next watchOS version: watchOS 26. The update will begin rolling out next week on Monday, September 15th – bringing a plethora of new features to compatible Apple Watch models. What’s new in watchOS 26 As is the story with the rest of Apple’s operating systems, the new Liquid Glass design language truly is the star of the show here. Control Center has a fresh new look, Smart Stack looks stunning, and controls in ap

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US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

news.ycombinator.com Ma Is An Associated Press National Writer Who Covers Education. 2025-10-04 19:45:46

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from the National Assessment of Education Progress. The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eight

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SpaceX Strikes Wireless Gold With EchoStar Sale. Expect Better Coverage With These Carriers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 22:31:00

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired $17 billion worth of EchoStar’s wireless spectrum, the two companies announced on Monday. The coveted chunk of spectrum, which is used to transmit cellular data through the air, exists in the 1.9 and lower 2GHz spectrum bands. The news comes six weeks after SpaceX launched its satellite texting partnership T-Mobile, called T-Satellite. SpaceX’s Starlink internet service is now poised to dramatically increase its direct-to-cell coverage, which allows users to text

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‘Free Speech’ University in Austin Makes Freshmen Read Palantir CEO’s Deep Thoughts

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-06 11:30:04

In 2021, “intellectual dark web” OG and Israeli-government stan Bari Weiss announced the launch of her own university. In case you don’t remember, the “intellectual dark web” was a term coined by one of its own proponents (Eric Weinstein) and used to market a breed of new pundits and influencers, like Joe Rogan, who sprang up during the first Trump administration. These pundits dared to share provocative perspectives that, according to them, no one else had the courage to voice—stuff like multic

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EchoStar to sell spectrum to SpaceX after FCC threatened to revoke licenses

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-06 11:31:26

SpaceX's complaints to the Federal Communications Commission have helped the satellite company land a $17 billion deal to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar. The deal consists of up to $8.5 billion in cash and up to $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock, EchoStar said. SpaceX also agreed to pay $2 billion worth of interest payments on EchoStar debt through November 2027. After SpaceX alleged that EchoStar subsidiary Dish Network "barely uses" its spectrum and urged the FCC to make the spectrum availab

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EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-07 03:36:17

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. Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, the companies announced on Monday. SpaceX says it will use the spectrum to create the “next generation” of Starlink’s cellular satellite service, which customers

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SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar’s spectrum for Starlink’s direct-to-phone service

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-10-07 07:26:57

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to acquire 50MHz of wireless spectrum and Mobile Satellite Service spectrum licenses from EchoStar, for use in the Starlink satellite network. EchoStar will sell its AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses in exchange for $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion SpaceX stock. SpaceX said the deal would let it develop and deploy its “Direct to Cell” constellation, which it claims can provide broadband-speed internet access to mobile phones across the world. Of the cash, $2

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How Yichao “Peak” Ji became a global AI app hitmaker

technologyreview.com Caiwei Chen 2025-10-07 19:30:00

At first sight, Manus works like most chatbots: Users can ask it questions in a chat window. However, besides providing answers, it can also carry out tasks (for example, finding an apartment that meets specified criteria within a certain budget). It does this by breaking tasks down into steps, then using a cloud-based virtual machine equipped with a browser and other tools to execute them—perusing websites, filling in forms, and so on. Ji is the technical core of the team. Now based in Singapo

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Score Insane Student Deals on Laptops and Gaming Consoles at AliExpress

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 10:15:00

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

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-09 19:00:22

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

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 19:01:31

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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You Can Now Buy Fandango Movie Tickets on TikTok. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 19:20:12

You Can Now Buy Fandango Movie Tickets on TikTok. Here's How It Works The in-app feature will let you go from watching movie reels to choosing your seats without leaving TikTok.

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How to decide between Linux and MacOS - if you're ready to ditch Windows

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-12 05:20:00

mrgao/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The choice between Linux and MacOS isn't hard. If you can answer these questions, you'll know which to choose. Both are outstanding choices and will serve you well. I use both Linux and MacOS. The former is used for everyday tasks, and the latter for video editing and mobile usage (please, someone, create a Linux laptop that is as reliable and similar to a MacBook). Also: New to Linu

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Ditching Windows? How to decide between Linux and MacOS - in 7 simple steps

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-12 23:02:16

Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The choice between Linux and MacOS isn't hard. If you can answer these questions, you'll know which to choose. Both are outstanding choices and will serve you well. I use both Linux and MacOS. The former is used for everyday tasks, and the latter for video editing and mobile usage (please, someone, create a Linux laptop that is as reliable and similar to a MacBook). Also:

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Latest Tech News

How to Change Your Kindle’s Language: Spanish, French, Japanese, and More (2025)

What to expect from Amazon's event on September 30

How Nissan leveraged its driver assist to cut traffic jams

watchOS 26 is now available, here’s what’s new for Apple Watch

watchOS 26 is now available with a new wrist flick gesture and Notes on your wrist

Amazon sets the date for what sounds like a big fall hardware event

Amazon may be announcing new Echo and Kindle devices on September 30

Spotify Free now lets you play a specific track on demand

Free Spotify users can finally listen to any track immediately

How to Inspire K-12 Students to Study in Computing Disciplines in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Byte-A-Dynamo Workshops

Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns

US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market

watchOS 26 adds four brand new watch faces, including an Ultra exclusive

Apple announces watchOS 26 release date: Here’s what’s coming to your Apple Watch

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SpaceX Strikes Wireless Gold With EchoStar Sale. Expect Better Coverage With These Carriers

‘Free Speech’ University in Austin Makes Freshmen Read Palantir CEO’s Deep Thoughts

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You Can Now Buy Fandango Movie Tickets on TikTok. Here's How It Works

How to decide between Linux and MacOS - if you're ready to ditch Windows

Ditching Windows? How to decide between Linux and MacOS - in 7 simple steps

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