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

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-07-26 22:28:09

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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This handy AI voice recorder has changed the way I work (and it's easy to use)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-07-26 22:36:18

ZDNET's key takeaways Plaud Note is available now on Amazon.com for $159 This device and app combo lifts your note-taking to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness The Plaud Note device does require a paid subscription for the AI features. $159 at Amazon In the world of voice recording apps and devices, it's mostly the same old thing: Click or tap Record, start speaking, stop speaking, and click Save. Some voice recording apps will do basic transcripts (the Pixel Recording app does an im

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I was wrong about Obsidian: Here’s why it’s actually a powerful app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-27 23:00:53

Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority Obsidian sat unused in my app drawer for months. I tried playing around with it when I first set out to ditch big tech from my digital life, but I found it far too intimidating and clunky. I’d poke around in it every now and again, and then scurry back to Google Keep. Obsidian clearly wasn’t for me. Then, something subtle shifted that made me reconsider the purple app. So now I’m doing something I never thought I would: singing the praises of Obsidian. Now,

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Google Keep could finally add the search option you’ve wanted for years (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-27 21:50:56

TL;DR Google Keep might finally let users search within a single note. The app currently allows finding content across all notes. With the new “Find in note” feature, users will be able to locate something specific within one particularly long or detailed note. For years, Google Keep users have been asking for a simple but much-needed feature, and it looks like their pleas are finally being answered. We’ve found strong evidence suggesting that Google’s note-taking app will soon give users the

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

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-07-28 06:26:38

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 2025-07-28 22:14:00

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 2025-07-28 22:02:59

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 2025-07-29 02:38:31

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 2025-07-29 02:26:38

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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I found an E Ink tablet worthy of replacing my Remarkable

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-07-29 06:21:10

ZDNET's key takeaways The Boox Note Max comes bundled with the pen and case for $649. It's thin and light, has a high-contrast display, and has a long list of features that make it a very versatile device. Theres no backlight, it's monochromatic, and there's a bit of a learning curve to use it to its fullest. View now at Amazon View now at B&H Photo and Video more buying choices I went hands-on with the Remarkable Paper Pro last year and thought that was a big tablet. The latest Boox Note Max

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The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream device

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-07-29 10:31:27

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, or $299 when bundled with the folio case and adapter. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon's latest Kindle Scribe can be considered a 2-in-1, as it's b

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I've used a color E Ink for months, and here's how it boosted my productivity

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-07-29 18:28:34

ZDNET's key takeaways The Boox Note Air 4C is a color ePaper tablet for notes and reading, available for $500. The tablet's display is crisp and paper-like, and the included pen is accurate and sensitive, making it easy to create highly detailed sketches. The Note Air 4C isn't cheap, at $530, and the included pen is much thicker than the tablet, so it falls off easily. $509.99 at Amazon For months now, I've used the Boox Note Air 4C tablet as my go-to digital notebook. This tablet is the perf

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The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream (and it's $200 off for Prime Day)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-03 22:20:43

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, or $299 when bundled with the folio case and adapter. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon is currently offering the 16GB Kindle Scribe at 35% off, a $

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I found an E Ink tablet worthy of replacing my Remarkable, and it's on sale for Prime Day

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-06 10:00:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Boox Note Max comes bundled with the pen and case for $649. It's thin and light, has a high-contrast display, and has a long list of features that make it a very versatile device. Theres no backlight, it's monochromatic, and there's a bit of a learning curve to use it to its fullest. View now at Amazon View now at B&H Photo and Video more buying choices You can snag the Boox Note Max for $60 off during Amazon Prime Day, making it $630. Also: The best Prime Day deals

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This handy AI voice recorder has changed the way I work - and it just got cheaper

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-07 10:25:52

ZDNET's key takeaways Plaud Note is available now on Amazon.com for $159 This device and app combo lifts your note-taking to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness The Plaud Note device does require a paid subscription for the AI features. $159 at Amazon The Plaud AI recorder is on sale for $127 (save $32) during Amazon Prime Day. In the world of voice recording apps and devices, it's mostly the same old thing: Click or tap Record, start speaking, stop speaking, and click Save. Some voi

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The Kindle Scribe is the e-reader for note takers I recommend (and on sale for Prime Day)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-07 14:33:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, or $299 when bundled with the folio case and adapter. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon is currently offering the 16GB Kindle Scribe at 35% off, a $

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Showh HN: Microjax – JAX in two classes and six functions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-09 21:41:55

Microjax: JAX in two classes and six functions or Read on Github (I recommend actually running the notebook, either on your own computer or Colab). This is inspired by Andrej Karpathy's Micrograd, a PyTorch-like library in about 150 lines of code. Despite PyTorch's popularity, I prefer the way JAX works because it a more functional style. This tutorial borrows heavily from Matthew J Johnson's great 2017 presentation on the predecessor to JAX, autograd: Video / Slides / Code. My main contribut

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Showh HN: Microjax - Jax in two classes and six functions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 02:41:55

Microjax: JAX in two classes and six functions or Read on Github (I recommend actually running the notebook, either on your own computer or Colab). This is inspired by Andrej Karpathy's Micrograd, a PyTorch-like library in about 150 lines of code. Despite PyTorch's popularity, I prefer the way JAX works because it a more functional style. This tutorial borrows heavily from Matthew J Johnson's great 2017 presentation on the predecessor to JAX, autograd: Video / Slides / Code. My main contribut

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Hands on with Windows 11 Notepad's new markdown support

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-10 08:55:56

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad. The new formatting feature is turned on by default, and you just need to select one of the options in the new formatting toolbar. For example, when you highlight one of the lines in Notepad and choose your preferred heading, Notepad will instantly apply that formatting. You can use a heading, a subheading, or a body tag. That's up to you. You can also use bulle

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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 2025-08-09 21:00:34

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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Slack now integrates with reMarkable's e-paper tablets

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-10 05:00:15

You can now send your reMarkable notes and doodles straight to Slack. The companies have announced Slack integration for reMarkable tablets, letting you send whatever you want from the e-paper device straight to your workplace chat in one tap. "...we realized that when there’s friction between thinking and producing, you risk losing time, ideas, and momentum," reMarkable Chief Technology Officer Nico Cormie said in a statement. By linking the tablet with Slack, there's less friction between comi

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The Kindle Scribe just hit an all-time-low price ahead of Prime Day - here's why I recommend it

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-10 22:03:07

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Kindle Scribe is on sale for $259 for the 16GB version, the lowest price we've seen yet. It combines the familiar features of the Kindle e-reader with a bright display and a suite of premium note-taking features. The aforementioned features have a bit of a learning curve to fully take advantage of. $399.99 at Amazon $399.99 at Target $399.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Amazon is currently offering the 16GB Kindle Scribe at 35% off, a $140 discount that bri

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Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-15 10:00:39

Elon Musk's X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out "community notes," which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or not. But now, the platform plans to allow AI to write community notes, and that could potentially ruin whatever trust X users had in the fact-checking system—which X has fully acknowledged. In a research paper, X described the initiative as an "upgrade" while explaining everything that could possibl

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AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

news.ycombinator.com Lisa Bonos 2025-08-15 22:05:17

Clifton Sellers attended a Zoom meeting last month where robots outnumbered humans. He counted six people on the call including himself, Sellers recounted in an interview. The 10 others attending were note-taking apps powered by artificial intelligence that had joined to record, transcribe and summarize the meeting. Some of the AI helpers were assisting a person who was also present on the call — others represented humans who had declined to show up but sent a bot that listens but can’t talk in

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Elon Musk’s X Is Turning Community Notes Over to AI

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-15 22:40:57

Artificial intelligence chatbots are known for regularly offering dubious information and hallucinated details, making them terrible prospects for the role of fact-checker. And yet, Elon Musk’s X (née Twitter) plans to deploy AI agents to help fill in the gaps on the notoriously slow-reacting Community Notes, with the AI-generated notes appearing as soon as this month. What could possibly go wrong? The new model will allow developers to submit AI agents to be reviewed by the company, according

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X will let AI write Community Notes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-17 14:01:30

In what was probably an inevitable conclusion, X has announced that it will allow AI to author Community Notes. With a pilot program beginning today, the social network is releasing developer tools to create AI Note Writers. These tools will be limited to penning replies in a test mode and will need approval before their notes can be released into the wild. The first AI Note Writers will be accepted later this month, which is when the AI-composed notes will start appearing to users. "Not only d

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X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-17 18:13:23

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts. Like humans, the “AI Note Writers” will be able to submit a Community Note, but they will only actually be shown on a post “if found helpful by people from different perspectives,” X says in a post on its Community Notes account. Notes written by AI will

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X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-08-17 22:26:12

The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part of this fact-checking program can contribute comments that add context to certain posts, which are then checked by other users before they appear attached to a post. A Community Note may appear, for example, on a post of an AI-generated video that is not clear abou

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Best iPad apps to boost productivity and make your life easier

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-18 10:18:08

Apple’s iPads come with built-in productivity tools like Notes, Calendar, and Reminders, but if you’d like to explore new ways to maximize productivity and organize your life, there are many apps out there to help you. Although the iPad started off as a device that could be used to stream content or browse the web on the go, Apple has essentially turned its iPads into computers that can handle a variety of different tasks for personal, work, and school use. As a result, there are numerous apps

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The Google Keep Apple Watch app is no longer available

9to5mac.com Abner Li 2025-08-19 14:33:06

While Google released a new watchOS app today, the company also got rid of Google Keep for Apple Watch. Version 2.2025.26200 of Google Keep removes the Apple Watch app. There are no changes to the iPhone or iPad experience, which still use the Google Material Theme in light of Gmail, Drive, and other apps getting updated. The watchOS app has not seen any meaningful updates in years, with Google not even refreshing the app icon. Released in 2019, it did not have complications or add support for

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

This handy AI voice recorder has changed the way I work (and it's easy to use)

I was wrong about Obsidian: Here’s why it’s actually a powerful app

Google Keep could finally add the search option you’ve wanted for years (APK teardown)

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

Google adds featured notebooks on selected topics to NotebookLM

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

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

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

I found an E Ink tablet worthy of replacing my Remarkable

The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream device

I've used a color E Ink for months, and here's how it boosted my productivity

The Kindle Scribe is a reader and note taker's dream (and it's $200 off for Prime Day)

I found an E Ink tablet worthy of replacing my Remarkable, and it's on sale for Prime Day

This handy AI voice recorder has changed the way I work - and it just got cheaper

The Kindle Scribe is the e-reader for note takers I recommend (and on sale for Prime Day)

Showh HN: Microjax – JAX in two classes and six functions

Showh HN: Microjax - Jax in two classes and six functions

Hands on with Windows 11 Notepad's new markdown support

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

Slack now integrates with reMarkable's e-paper tablets

The Kindle Scribe just hit an all-time-low price ahead of Prime Day - here's why I recommend it

Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes

AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

Elon Musk’s X Is Turning Community Notes Over to AI

X will let AI write Community Notes

X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots

X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

Best iPad apps to boost productivity and make your life easier

The Google Keep Apple Watch app is no longer available

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