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Engadget
There's a new underwater location to explore and a dive mechanic. [...]
It's a widely held belief that restarting your phone improves performance. Here's the truth. [...]
The company developed the DoorDash Air drones in-house. [...]
Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac. [...]
The BBC has so many structural benefits that it's unthinkable it could be usurped by anyone else in the UK. [...]
Some newer vehicles include the feature, but to keep it, you'll have to pay monthly. You can also buy remote starters outright. [...]
The Framework 13 Pro is a class-leading Windows laptop that, right now, is just a little too pricey. [...]
Nintendo's 1986 commercial-use Famicombox is rare, but a Japanese love hotel reportedly has one in almost every room. [...]
DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more. [...]
OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face. [...]
Mashable Tech
As of July 29, you can get the Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus portable power station for $2,149, down from $3,699, at Amazon. [...]
DoorDash is launching DoorDash Air, an in-house drone delivery service. [...]
Learn how Samsung's upcoming smart glasses are expected to work, what Android XR brings, and the privacy concerns to watch. [...]
Australia started it. Now, the list is growing. Here's every country which has passed a social media ban for children. [...]
As of July 29, the black Anker soundcore 2 portable speaker is discounted to $29.98 at Amazon. That's 33% off its list price of $44.99. [...]
Granola has launched an Apple Watch app for recording and transcribing meetings hands-free. Since it can drain battery fast, the Apple Watch Ultra 3, with 42-hour battery life, is the [...]
As of July 29, the red Shokz OpenDots One are on sale for $139.95 at Amazon, 30% off their list price of $199.95. [...]
Get the best robot vacuum deal on Amazon. Save 47% on the roborock Qrevo CurvX at Amazon right now. [...]
Find the best robot vacuum deal. Save 50% on the iRobot Roomba Plus 405 at Amazon. [...]
Find the best TV deal at Amazon. Save 45% on the Hisense 65-inch E7 Cinema Series at Amazon. [...]
Mac Rumors
If you accidentally press the dictation or voice icon after sending a text in Messages, your music may pause while your iPhone starts listening. It's a small annoyance, but a [...]
Apple is preparing to allow the Bee Card to be added to the Wallet app, according to code seen by MacRumors. When this functionality goes live, you will be able [...]
Best Buy this week is hosting a pair of sales kicking off Back to School season, as well as its annual Black Friday in July event, with notable markdowns on [...]
With the new Apple Upgrade program in the U.S., you can now lease an iPhone, but is it worth it? The answer is more complicated than a simple yes or [...]
Driver's licenses and IDs may soon be available in Apple Wallet for iPhone and Apple Watch users living in Oklahoma. MacRumors discovered signs of an Oklahoma ID in Apple's backend. [...]
WhatsApp has announced a handful of enhancements for group calling over the encrypted platform, including seamless call transfers across devices and a new web calling feature. It's now possible to [...]
OpenAI's hardware roadmap has sharpened considerably in recent months, with its first device now identified, a smartphone said to be arriving as soon as next year, and a wider lineup [...]
The Phone and FaceTime apps didn't get as many new features as some of Apple's other apps, but there are a handful of capabilities that add utility and convenience. Phone [...]
Apple retired the iPhone Upgrade Program in favor of a new Apple Upgrade leasing option made available in partnership with Klarna. Apple Upgrade gives customers an option to get iPhones, [...]
Granola, an app that can transcribe Zoom meetings and then create AI-generated notes with key points, is now available on Apple Watch models running watchOS 11 and later. The app [...]
The Next Web
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual [...]
For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better reasoning, longer context windows, or more capable autonomous agents. Increasingly, people [...]
A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any [...]
NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported. The project would rank among the largest single commitments yet [...]
Apple has a new answer to the complaint that its products cost too much. Do not buy them. Lease them. On Tuesday the company launched Apple Upgrade in the US, [...]
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into how Microsoft sold its 365 subscriptions, asking whether the company misled personal and family customers when it raised prices and [...]
ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors, has raised $60 million. The company, a partner of Nvidia, is betting that the same agentic AI reshaping software [...]
Richard Socher’s new AI lab has just made an unusual bet with its money. Recursive has committed about $410m to a single, multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services. That [...]
Visa is cutting about 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its staff, and it is cutting them mostly from the teams that build its technology. The money it saves is going [...]
Options traders are positioning for a swing of roughly $190 billion in Microsoft’s market value after its results, an unusually large bet on a single earnings report. The pricing, reported [...]
The Verge
Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed Luce EV. Ahead of Ferrari announcing [...]
A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-end options is much cheaper than usual. The Remarkable [...]
DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said that it has approval from the Federal Aviation Administration that [...]
Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requires a high price. [...]
Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the "Z Fold 8" name, positioning the phone not as a [...]
When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like [...]
The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an [...]
Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without [...]
After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system. [...]
The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement [...]
Ars Technica
AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key. [...]
Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future. [...]
Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded. [...]
The new full-size flagship SUV starts at $87,700 when it goes on sale in Q4. [...]
"Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link's three reaction wheels currently are not operable." [...]
Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen. [...]
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch. [...]
eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home. [...]
“We're in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or two." [...]
The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.) [...]
Tech Crunch
X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a "systematic illegal boycott" of the platform after it saw a decline in advertising revenue following Musk's $44 billion [...]
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a [...]
Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona. [...]
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents. [...]
DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States. [...]
Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste. One startup has a plan to clean it up and turn a profit. [...]
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model [...]
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year. [...]
Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots. [...]
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself. [...]
Slash Dot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face's platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part [...]
jrnvk shares a report from KMSP: Minnesota IT Services reports that a "coordinated cyberattack" targeted technology at more than 30 community water systems between Sunday, July 26 and Monday, July [...]
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: [I]n a new study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in the U.S. have revealed that we [...]
The Trump administration has banned newly authorized foreign-made humanoid and four-legged robots, along with power inverters, citing "unacceptable risks" to the country's national security. FCC chairman Brendan Carr said the [...]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A corporate fad of "tokenmaxxing" on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are [...]
Apple has replaced its iPhone Upgrade Program with Apple Upgrade, a Klarna-backed U.S. leasing service covering most iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. MacRumors reports: Apple Upgrade has lower base [...]
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has yet to produce the expected surge in real-world attacks: VulnCheck found that only 14 of 1,061 attributed discoveries, or 1.3 percent, had been exploited, which is [...]
eBay and several former executives have agreed to pay $56 million to Ina and David Steiner, the newsletter writers targeted in a 2019 corporate harassment campaign that involved threats, surveillance [...]
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has "found flaws in a weakened version of a digital encryption standard that is in pervasive use throughout the internet," reports The New York Times. Researchers [...]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Minnesota, the first US state to prohibit prediction markets, was prevented from enforcing the law by a federal court ruling just [...]
Tech Republic
Microsoft is retiring its legacy Threat Intelligence portal on August 1. Security teams should verify licenses, permissions, investigation projects, APIs, and automated workflows before the cutoff. The post Microsoft Threat [...]
Samsung may give the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 five major OS upgrades, but IT teams should wait for model-specific support terms before changing refresh plans. The [...]
Microsoft's latest 64-bit IDE adds AI-assisted coding, faster performance, and advanced collaboration tools. The post Visual Studio 2026 Brings AI Deeper Into Development and It’s 94% Off Right Now appeared [...]
Instead of paying iCloud or Dropbox more every month, get a 20TB cloud storage that stays with you for life. The post This 20TB Cloud Storage Lifetime Subscription is on [...]
Samsung Display has reportedly won Apple's exclusive OLED touchscreen contract for future MacBook Pro models, highlighting its lead in large-format display manufacturing. The post Samsung Wins Exclusive OLED Touchscreen Deal [...]
Apple is reportedly preparing a 7-inch AI home hub, new Apple TV, and updated HomePod mini as Siri becomes central to its smart home strategy. The post Apple Readies AI [...]
Amazon reportedly plans to consolidate several Nova AI models. Here’s what the strategy shift could mean for AWS and enterprise AI customers. The post Amazon Reportedly Plans to Consolidate Nova [...]
AI security tools are helping uncover more software flaws, creating new patching demands and potential offensive risks for enterprise IT teams. The post More Than 45,000 Software Flaws Reported as [...]
G Suite Basic, Business, and Enterprise users can now check grammar in Google Docs. Here's a quick look at how well the feature performs compared to alternatives. The post 5 [...]
Apple’s latest iPhone, iPad and Mac updates patch 194 unique security flaws involving root access, kernel code execution and protected data. The post Apple Fixes 194 Security Flaws Across iPhone, [...]
CNET Tech
Google’s pushing a more hands-off experience with its latest Gemini for Mac release. [...]
Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for July 29, #674. [...]
This trick can keep prying eyes out of your apps. [...]
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for July 29. [...]
Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 878 for July 29. [...]
Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle No. 1144 for July 29. [...]
Here are hints and the answer for today’s Wordle No. 1,866 for Wednesday, July 29. [...]
The new way to switch from an iPhone to Android isn’t perfect, but it’s far smoother. [...]
A new estimate suggests reported losses reveal only a fraction of the damage, as crypto, AI and social media make fraud easier to spread. [...]
The FAA issued a ground stop advisory, keeping the airline’s fleet on the ground. [...]
Tech Radar
Control Resonant appears to be one of 2026's potential biggest hits in gaming, and after speaking with its gameplay designer, I can't wait for September 24. [...]
It's time to read AI its rights [...]
Our audit of Windows VPNs uncovers a graveyard of old OpenVPN configurations, with more than 50% of apps using versions over a year old. [...]
Security leaders are being forced to rethink identity, permissions and monitoring for AI agents – but they only need to reframe everything they already know. [...]
Tom Holland's new Marvel movie is fun enough, but doesn't take the big swings it needs to avoid some classic MCU pitfalls. [...]
Some Squarespace users see recent subscription increases as unfair [...]
AMD's flagship CPU boasts 16 cores, 32 threads, Zen 5 architecture with 3D V-Cache, boost speeds up to 5.7GHz, and an all-time low price. [...]
We are responsible for creating data center demand – we should accept some of the consequences. But hyperscalers have responsibilities, too. [...]
Is Logitech's Signature Comfort Plus line all talk, or can it really help boost my home working experience? [...]
The modern attack surface is expanding while becoming more fragmented, complex and harder to control. [...]
GigaOm
| Slack Steps In It | Staffbase Raises $145M | Airtable Valued at $5.7B | Box on the Block | CoScreen Launches |:::Photo by Stephen Phillips — Hostreviews.co.uk on UnsplashIn Slack is becoming a [...]
| LinkedIn Marketplaces | Virtual Events Are Hot: Hopin and Hubilo | Asynch Video: Weet | Microsoft Viva |Photo by Philipp Berndt on UnsplashQuote of the MomentIt is a huge misunderstanding that the [...]
The pandemic is leading people away from endless video meetingsPhoto by Stefan Cosma on UnsplashI came upon Complish a few months ago and thought I might fool with it before writing it [...]
Trello is becoming more like a spreadbase, like Notion, Airtable, or CodaTrello has announced the availability of a variety of new views, so users are no longer limited to the now-familiar [...]
Employee experience platforms, not intranetsContinue reading on GigaOm » [...]
| Citrix buys Wrike | Personio raises $125M | SalesLoft raises $100M | Softr raises $2.2M | Divvy raises $165M |Photo by Shane on UnsplashToday’s Work Week is inspired by Frank Herbert:Deep in [...]
| Virtual Events: Hopin buys Streamyard | PPM: Planview buys Clarizen, Changepoint | OKR: Gtmhub raises $30M | Work Chat: Channel Calendars |Photo by Ian Schneider on UnsplashI took some time [...]
The intersection of journaling and work managementContinue reading on GigaOm » [...]
Crossing the enterprise-readiness chasmContinue reading on GigaOm » [...]
Tech Viral
Windows 11 natively supports ZIP files and allows you to compress and extract them from the context menu. Here are the different ways to unzip files in Windows 11. 1. [...]
When the Windows Services app encounters issues, it may fail to open or prevent you from modifying the Windows Services. If you’re having trouble accessing the Services app, here’s what [...]
Windows 11 has a Loudness Equalization feature, which normalizes the volume output. The feature uses an understanding of human hearing to reduce perceived volume differences. If you want to enable [...]
Controlled Folder Access is a feature that protects your PC from ransomware attacks. With Controlled Folder Access, you can lock folders you don’t want softwares to modify. Here’s a detailed [...]
The error 0x800703e6 generally appears while attempting to install the latest updates. Several things trigger this error, such as missing registry entries, antivirus/firewall prevention, and so on. If you get [...]
Chrome’s automatic updates can slow down the internet connection and raise CPU usage. If you have limited internet bandwidth, it’s important to turn off automatic Chrome updates. Here are different [...]
Earlier this year, ChatGPT launched Health, an experience that brings all your health information and ChatGPT’s intelligence together. With the help of ChatGPT Health, you can be more informed and [...]
While initiating a manual scan with Windows Security is easy, having direct access to all scan options would be easier. If you want easier & quicker access to the Windows [...]
If you already have an activated Windows, you will have to know the product key to perform a clean installation of Windows. Knowing the Windows Product Key will also be [...]
Clearing the cache files will free up storage and fix many apps, network, or compatibility-related issues. There are various ways to clear the cache in Windows 11; here are some [...]