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Wait, What? NASA Found Signs of Ancient Alien Life on Mars

NASA released a significant update from the Perseverance Mars rover on Sept. 10, focusing on a particularly juicy tidbit for those watching from home: A small rock sample called Sapphire Canyon showed signs of potential biosignatures, or ancient alien life that may have once grown on Mars. That's possible because of the unique location where Perseverance located the sample in July 2024. It came from a rock named Cheyava Falls. This particular rock is in Jezero Crater, home to an ancient dry riv

Big Deals on Big TCL TVs—Some Of Our Top Tested Models Are Nearly 50% Off

If you're in the market for a new television, some of our favorite QLED screens from TCL are almost half off for the start of football season. They're already budget-friendly, so these discounts make them even more appealing as an upgrade, and they feature mini LED technology for impressive brightness. While a variety of models are on sale, I want to focus on the two that have found their way into a few of our favorite television roundups. First up is the TCL QM6K (8/10, WIRED Recommends), a sc

Google will upgrade its revenge porn defenses with help from a UK nonprofit

Google is partnering with a UK nonprofit to fight non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII). (You may know it better as revenge porn.) Over the coming months, the company will begin using StopNCII's hashes. These user-uploaded digital fingerprints can block individuals' unwanted intimate content from appearing in search results. StopNCII has a pretty neat system to combat revenge porn. Say you have some images you most definitely don't want surfacing online. Select the picture on your device, and

Don't buy a Bluetti before you see the $400 extras you can get for free

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Best early Target Circle Week deals to compete with Prime Day 2025

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Best early Amazon Prime Day Samsung deals 2025: My 23 favorites sales ahead of October

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The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery

The iPhone Air’s thin design might be eye catching, and the amount of engineering that went into miniaturizing its logic board is impressive. But according to Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of battery materials manufacturer Sila, the real breakthrough might lurk elsewhere inside the aluminum and glass enclosure. “The battery in the new iPhone is pretty remarkable,” Berdichevsky told TechCrunch. “The completely arbitrary, two-dimensional shape — you look at the shape, and it’s pretty amaz

Best Amazon Prime Day Apple deals 2025: My 24 favorite sales in October

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Best October Prime Day deals under $100: My favorite early sales

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Best Sam's Club deals to compete with October Prime Day 2025: My favorite 10+ deals

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Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code

Between code reviews, and AI generated rubbish, I've had it. Whether it's people relying on AI to write pull request descriptions (that are crap by the way), or using it to generate tests.. I'm sick of it. Over the year, I've been doing a tonne of consulting. The last three months I've watched at least 8 companies embrace AI generated pip for coding, testing, and code reviews. Honestly, the best suggestions I've seen are found by linters in CI, and spell checkers. Is this what we've come to? M

Best early Prime Day Walmart deals 2025: All-time-low prices from Microsoft, Samsung, and more

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Best early Prime Day Amazon Echo device deals 2025: My 10 favorites sales ahead of October

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Best Amazon Prime Day phone deals 2025: My 13 favorite sales in October

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Best early October Prime Day Anker deals 2025: All-time-low prices on power banks, chargers, and more

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Best early Amazon Prime Day EcoFlow deals 2025: My 7 favorites sales ahead of October

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Best early Amazon Prime Day headphones deals 2025: My 15 favorites sales ahead of October

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New PS5 Update Lets DualSense Controllers Pair With Multiple Devices at the Same Time

All you PlayStation 5 players can now pair your wireless DualSense controllers with up to four devices at a time and toggle among them. For some time, you've been able to pair your DualSense controllers not just with PS5s and other PlayStation consoles, but also with PCs, Macs, smartphones and other Bluetooth devices. But that pairing could happen with only one device at a time; using a different device with a DualSense required pairing all over again. That changes now, with system update 25.0

This PS5 Update Lets DualSense Controllers Pair With Multiple Devices at the Same Time

All you PlayStation 5 players can now pair your wireless DualSense controllers with up to four devices at a time and toggle between them. For some time, you've been able to pair your DualSense controllers not just with PS5s and other PlayStation consoles, but also with PCs, Macs, smartphones and other Bluetooth devices. But that pairing could happen with only one device at a time; using a different device with a DualSense required pairing all over again. That changes now, with system update 25

1Password directly integrates with Perplexity Comet now - for more secure agentic browsing

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Procedural Island Generation (III)

Resulting terrain elevation with multi-scale noise layers and mountain peaks This post continues from Part II, where we established the paint map foundation and mountain ridge system. Now we’ll add detailed noise layers, distance-based mountain peaks, and do blending to create the final terrain elevation. Paint Map (recap) Before applying noise layers, we start with the foundation established in Part I - the paint map that defines our base land/water distribution: The paint map from Part I -

Sony’s PS5 update adds controller swapping and Power Saving mode

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. PS5 users can now run select games in “Power Saving” mode and pair DualSense controllers with multiple devices. Sony started beta testing these features in July, but they’re now rolling out to everyone today in the version 25.06-12.00.00 console software update. The new Power Saver mode will reduce the power consumption of PS5 consoles in exchange for scaling back game performance, according to Sony’s PS5 u

The OnePlus 12 is one of favorite Android smartphones from 2024 - and it's on sale for $300 off

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This 25W wireless charger solved my biggest problem with the new iPhone 17

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PureVPN IPv6 Leak

In late August 2025, I submitted two security reports to PureVPN under their VDP. Three weeks later, I’ve received no response, so I decided to publish the findings to inform other users. The issues affect both their GUI (v2.10.0) and CLI (v2.0.1) clients on Linux (tested on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, kernel 6.8.0, iptables-nft backend). Here’s what I found. 1. IPv6 Leaks Off-Tunnel After toggling Wi-Fi or resuming from suspend, the PureVPN client fails to restore IPv6 protections: CLI (IKS enabled

Meta Is Debuting New Smart Glasses Today. Here’s How to Watch

Meta Connect, the annual event that serves as both the company’s developer conference and a platform for its new hardware announcements, is happening this week. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to take the stage at 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern, and 1 am British Summer Time on Wednesday, September 17, to announce a fleet of new smart glasses. We also expect to hear some updates on Meta’s machine intelligence efforts, and maybe a hint or two about how things are going at the company’s fledgling

Grab the 46mm OnePlus Watch 3 for up to $80 off - buy now before the deal ends

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Should we drain the Everglades?

Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida, has an average depth of only nine feet (2.7 meters). Oh, and it has 30,000 alligators, but try not to think about that. Dough4872 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons I can’t explain why this bothers me so much, but something about it being so big and yet so shallow just creeps me out. I find it unsettling, okay? Mentally, it makes me feel like noodles, if that makes sense. It’s the eighth-largest (freshwater) lake in the country but I’ve swam i

Ozempic May Be Less Effective for Emotional Eaters, Study Suggests

GLP-1 agonists—so-called “wonder drugs” like Ozempic or Wegovy that help individuals lower blood sugar levels and lose weight, among other things—yield significant results for some patients, but not all. People’s motivations to overeat may play a role in this, according to a new study. To investigate why some people don’t benefit from GLP-1 agonists as much as others, researchers observed 92 participants with type 2 diabetes in Japan during their first year of taking GLP-1 drugs. Their results,

Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Bans 3, Hypernova smart glasses, Meta AI, more

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