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Everything we learned from a week with Apple CarPlay Ultra

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-25 04:00:39

For the 2025 model year, Aston Martin's user interface took a major step forward across the lineup, with improvements to the physical controls and digital infotainment, as well as updated gauge cluster layouts. However, the big news dropped in the spring, when Aston and Apple announced the launch of CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of Apple's nearly ubiquitous automotive operating system. Ultra extends beyond the strictly “phone” functions of traditional CarPlay to now encompass more robust v

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NotebookLM now lets you chat with expert guides from top publishers, and Shakespeare - here's how

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-07-28 19:28:09

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Google announced Monday that it is expanding the repertoire of NotebookLM, its AI-powered note-taking and research platform, to include the works of some prominent publishing names. Also: NotebookLM now lets you share your notebooks with anyone with a single link. Here's how The company is collaborating with a cohort of scientists, nonprofits, authors, and news publishers to deliver a series of featured notebooks for NotebookLM users. These notebooks cove

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Starlink Doubled Its Speed In 2 Years. It Still Doesn’t Meet the FCC’s Definition of Broadband

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-30 04:39:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as it was two years ago, according to a new report from the speed test site Ookla. (Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) Median download speeds from the satellite internet provider have steadily ticked up over the past few years, going from 53.95 megabits per second in 2022 to 104.71Mbps today. That’s an impressive feat considering Starlink added about 5 million customers over the same period and recently passed the 6 milli

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-30 03:26:38

Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that allow NotebookLM users to explore a wide array of topics from health and life advice to travel tips and financial analysis, and more. The initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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Google adds featured notebooks on selected topics to NotebookLM

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-30 19:14:00

Google is adding what it calls "featured notebooks" to NotebookLM as a way to demo its AI-powered software and offer interactive, high-quality resources on everything from personal advice to William Shakespeare. The company tried something similar after its developer conference in May, when it created a NotebookLM notebook trained on everything that was announced at Google I/O 2025. The new featured notebooks have their own dedicated tab on the NotebookLM homepage and were created in partnershi

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Google’s curated AI ‘notebooks’ talk you through topics from parenting to Shakespeare

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-30 19:02:59

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. Google is partnering with authors, researchers, and publications to launch “featured” notebooks within its AI notetaking app, NotebookLM. These notebooks come pre-filled with research, and let you interact with the app’s tools, including its AI podcast maker, to learn more about each topic. Google has released eight featured notebooks to start, inc

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Google’s underrated AI tool just got a major upgrade with featured notebooks

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-30 23:38:31

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding expert-curated featured notebooks to NotebookLM, expanding its role beyond personal research and note-taking. Topics include the complete works of Shakespeare, Yellowstone travel tips, and predictions from The Economist. The new feature is desktop-only for now and follows the recent rollout of public notebook sharing. NotebookLM was already doing a good job as anything from a personal research assistant to an advisor on your car maintena

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-30 23:26:38

Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that allow NotebookLM users to explore a wide array of topics from health and life advice to travel tips and financial analysis, and more. The initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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Weekly subscriptions dominate iOS app revenue, report finds

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-07-31 03:07:58

Weekly subscriptions have now become one of the most popular ways iOS apps are earning revenue, with these plans contributing 46% to the bottom line, according to a new report by app revenue management platform Adapty. The study, which observed $1.9 billion in revenue across more than 11,000 apps, noted that weekly plans have grown by 9.5% this year compared to one-time purchases, which grew by 6.3% in the first quarter. Other paid plans, including monthly, yearly, and lifetime subscriptions, d

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APKLab: Android Reverse-Engineering Workbench for VS Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 00:08:14

APKLab The ultimate Android RE experience right inside your VS Code. APKLab seamlessly integrates the best open-source tools: Quark-Engine, Apktool, Jadx, uber-apk-signer, apk-mitm and more to the excellent VS Code so you can focus on app analysis and get it done without leaving the IDE. Features Decode all the resources from an APK Disassemble the APK to Dalvik bytecode aka Smali Decompile the APK to Java source Interactive Malware Analysis Report Initialize Project dir as Git repo E

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Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick (1953)

news.ycombinator.com Philip K. Dick 2025-07-28 05:14:14

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Second Variety, by Philip Kindred Dick This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Second Variety Author: Philip Kindred Dick Illustrator: Alex Ebel Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32032] [Last updated: May 4, 2011] Language: English Character set encod

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Meta's new Oakley smart glasses beat its Ray-Bans - and you can preorder them starting today

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-08-02 03:22:20

Mark Zuckerberg Several months ago, reports emerged that Meta was looking to expand beyond its current smart glasses lineup into sportier versions. Now the glasses are officially here -- and the preorder starts today. In June, Meta launched limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model glasses. Staying true to the brand, the Meta version of the glasses keeps the form factor Oakley is known for, with a more flexible and rugged design that still allows athletes to take advantage of the smart glasses' c

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Mockly made a fake DM generator that’s actually user-friendly

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-04 03:48:12

Developer Maurice Kleine shipped a web app on Thursday that could be either a boon for meme-making or the bane of your existence, depending on how you look at it. Mockly can generate believable images of fake conversations on apps like iMessage, Discord, Instagram, X, Tinder, WhatsApp, and more. Tools like Mockly have existed since the dawn of instant messaging, but they generally aren’t the most user-friendly apps — many of the results when you Google “fake iMessage generator” are those websit

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New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Howlett 2025-08-11 03:19:13

The advantage of Rogers’ method was that you didn’t have to start with a particularly efficient lattice to get an efficient sphere packing. You just had to choose the right ellipsoid. But this introduced a new complication. Unlike a sphere, which is completely defined by a single number — its radius — an ellipsoid is defined by several axes of different lengths. The higher the dimension, the greater the number of directions you can stretch your ellipsoid in, and the more options you have for wha

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Starlink’s In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Faster Than Its Home Internet Speeds: Here’s Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-11 02:00:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as any other in-flight Wi-Fi option, according to the latest report by the speed test site Ookla. (Disclaimer: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) The satellite internet company from SpaceX clocked median download speeds of 152 megabits per second and upload speeds of 24Mbps. That means that Starlink’s speeds in the air are faster than some internet providers on the ground. Those download and upload speeds were nearly twice as fast a

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Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 01:55:30

Markdown‑native Task Manager & Kanban visualizer for any Git repository npm i -g backlog.md or bun add -g backlog.md Backlog.md turns any folder with a Git repo into a self‑contained project board powered by plain Markdown files and a zero‑config CLI. Features 📝 Markdown-native tasks -- manage every issue as a plain .md file 🔒 100 % private & offline -- backlog lives entirely inside your repo 📊 Instant terminal Kanban -- backlog board paints a live board in your shell 🌐 Modern web interf

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Backlog.md – CLI that auto-generates task files (took my Claude success to 95 %)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 06:55:30

Markdown‑native Task Manager & Kanban visualizer for any Git repository npm i -g backlog.md or bun add -g backlog.md Backlog.md turns any folder with a Git repo into a self‑contained project board powered by plain Markdown files and a zero‑config CLI. Features 📝 Markdown-native tasks -- manage every issue as a plain .md file 🔒 100 % private & offline -- backlog lives entirely inside your repo 📊 Instant terminal Kanban -- backlog board paints a live board in your shell 🌐 Modern web interf

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As a Wear OS fan, I’m embarrassed to admit how excited I am for this watchOS 26 feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-11 18:00:34

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority I rely on lists to keep my life running: grocery lists, packing lists, home improvement checklists, birthday gift ideas for my 19 nieces and nephews, and ongoing logs of thank-you notes for gifts for my own kid. My note-keeping apps aren’t just productivity tools; they’re the backbone of my sanity. So, when Apple announced that the Notes app is coming to Apple smartwatches via watchOS 26, my ears perked up. Do you use note-taking apps on your smartwatch? 171

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Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-08-15 11:55:59

It’s an open secret in the fintech world that the founder and CEO of startup Increase, Darragh Buckley, has been trying for years to “buy a bank,” as one person familiar with the landscape told TechCrunch. A couple of weeks ago, he basically succeeded. He bought a big enough stake in Twin City Bank to trigger a public disclosure of the transaction by the Federal Research Board. Such share purchases are then subject to FDIC approval. Twin City is a small community bank in Longview, Washington,

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Starlink’s Wi-Fi Is Faster in the Air Than on the Ground

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-19 11:14:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as any other in-flight Wi-Fi option, according to a new report by the speed test site Ookla. (Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) Starlink’s speeds in the air are faster than some internet providers on the ground. The satellite internet company from SpaceX clocked median download speeds of 152Mbps and upload speeds of 24Mbps. Those download and upload speeds were nearly twice as fast as any other in-flight internet option, but latenc

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Spotify Celebrates 10 Years of Discover Weekly With a Fresh New Look

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-19 11:32:31

Spotify — a CNET Editors' Choice award-winning service — offers Premium subscribers ($12 a month) a huge catalog filled with millions of songs to enjoy at home, on the go and everywhere in between. And on Monday, the company celebrated 10 years of its Discover Weekly playlist by giving it a new look and giving subscribers more control over what genres of music they will see in the playlist. Read more: Best Music Streaming Services of 2025 I didn't mind the color-gradient Discover Weekly album

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People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees

news.ycombinator.com Nick Tobey 2025-08-19 12:01:54

Multiple Discovery refers to when a scientific discovery is made independently by multiple individuals around the same time. The most well-known examples are Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz's independent invention of calculus, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's independent formulation of the theory of evolution. (Source: https://xkcd.com/626/) There's even a hypothesis that multiple discovery is the norm, rather than an exception: that invention is an result of social conditions

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Entropy of a Mixture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 23:11:30

Entropy of a Mixture Given a pair ( p 0 , p 1 ) (p_0, p_1) (p0,p1) of probability density functions and an interpolation factor λ ∈ [ 0 , 1 ] , \lambda \in [0, 1], λ∈[0,1], consider the mixture p λ = ( 1 − λ ) p 0 + λ p 1 . p_\lambda = (1 - \lambda) p_0 + \lambda p_1. pλ=(1−λ)p0+λp1. How does the entropy H ( p λ ) = − E ⁡ X ∼ p λ ln ⁡ p λ ( X ) H(p_\lambda) = -\E_{X \sim p_\lambda} \ln p_\lambda(X) H(pλ)=−EX∼pλlnpλ(X) of this mixture vary as a function of λ \lambda λ? The widget below

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Fintech Bolt progresses its turnaround by landing Klarna as a partner

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-08-22 03:00:00

Klarna and Bolt announced a partnership Monday, which will see Klarna’s payment options integrated into Bolt’s checkout operating system. This deal means Klarna will show up as a buy now, pay later choice on Bolt devices. Merchants using Bolt can offer Klarna’s Pay in 4 or monthly financing options to shoppers in physical stores, and shoppers can choose that option with a single click. The integration is set to go live later this year, first in the U.S. and then in other markets around the worl

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The best (and worst) in-flight Wi-Fi service on airlines, ranked

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-08-22 19:25:00

Westend61 / Getty Images I sometimes try to squeeze in work during a long airline flight, and for that I typically need to tap into the in-flight Wi-Fi. How do today's airlines fare at providing good wireless access? A new report from Speedtest app provider Ookla looks at the best and worst of in-flight Wi-Fi. To compile its report, Ookla analyzed the data collected by its Speedtest app during the first quarter of 2025. The results included Wi-Fi performance for individual airlines, as well as

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Spotify Discover Weekly gets personal update, letting you offer it guidance

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-23 07:41:20

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist has been around for a full decade now, aiming to introduce you to singers and bands you don’t know but may like, with particular emphasis on emerging artists. It’s been great for me, but if it isn’t quite hitting the spot, you can now help it do better … Discover Weekly is an algorithmic playlists that looks at your existing favorite artists, finds other subscribers with the same tastes, and shows you what else they are listening to. It’s been a highly–succes

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Spotify adds genre controls to Discover Weekly

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-23 07:35:31

Spotify's Discover Weekly is celebrating 10 years of being a very ok feature. To celebrate the milestone, Spotify is giving Discover Weekly a full refresh, letting you choose between up to five genres for the playlist. The option will appear at the top of your playlist and provide songs based on your listening history. The 30-track playlist will update accordingly. There are also visual changes, with Spotify stating, "the playlist's vibrant new design reflects its ever-evolving nature and the d

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Spotify Is Giving You More Control Over Your Discover Weekly Playlist

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-23 19:00:02

Spotify — a CNET Editor's Choice award-winning service — offers Premium subscribers ($12 a month) a huge catalog filled with millions of songs to enjoy at home, on the go and everywhere in between. The streaming app is an easy way to find new musicians thanks to the Discover Weekly playlist. On Monday, Spotify announced it is revamping the Discover Weekly playlist on the mobile app, giving subscribers more control over what genres of music they will discover. Read more: Best Music Streaming Ser

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Spotify will let users personalize the genre of Discover Weekly playlists

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-08-23 19:00:00

Spotify is adding new personalization features to Discover Weekly, the popular and influential playlist streamed by millions of users. The regularly updated playlist will now have buttons for genres like pop, R&B, and funk at the top, allowing users to tell Spotify what they want more of. The Discover Weekly playlist is one of the more noteworthy things Spotify has introduced: the company says songs on the playlist have been streamed more than 100 billion times. The weekly mixtape — generated v

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Spotify revamps its Discover Weekly playlist after 10 years

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-23 19:00:00

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist, which shares new listening recommendations every Monday, is getting an update. Ten years after the debut of Discover Weekly (yes, we feel old, too), Spotify Premium users will see new controls at the top of the playlist, which allow them to push their recommendations toward certain genres. So, if you mostly listen to 80s rock, but you’re starting to develop a soft spot for K-pop, you can select different genre filters to push the algorithmic curation in the r

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Everything we learned from a week with Apple CarPlay Ultra

NotebookLM now lets you chat with expert guides from top publishers, and Shakespeare - here's how

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Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick (1953)

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As a Wear OS fan, I’m embarrassed to admit how excited I am for this watchOS 26 feature

Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank

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Spotify revamps its Discover Weekly playlist after 10 years

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