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Instagram is tightening the settings on its "teen accounts" to add new limits on what kids on the platform are able to see. Older teens will also no longer be able to opt out of the default stricter settings without parental approval. Meta first introduced teen accounts for Instagram a year ago, when it began automatically moving teens into the more locked-down accounts that come with stricter privacy settings and parental controls. The company recently rolled out the accounts for teens on Facebook and Mess
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The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78. Read more ›
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The Secretary of Homeland Security filmed a video blaming Democrats for the shutdown impacting TSA operations, but many airports won't play it. Read more ›
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The Office of Management and Budget said that it's "making every preparation to batten down the hatches and ride out the Democrats' intransigence." Read more ›
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Apple today provided public beta testers with the third releases of upcoming iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, tvOS 26.1 and watchOS 26.1 updates for testing purposes. Apple seeded the betas to developers earlier this week. After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the Settings app on each device. iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1,... Read more ›
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The president of the United States is deploying masked troops to the streets of blue cities, working to put friendly billionaires in charge of the media environment, and attempting to jail his personal enemies. Can any democracy come back from this? Earlier this year, two teams of researchers published papers trying to answer this exact […] Read more ›
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As Windows 10 fades into obsolescence, the argument it leaves behind is more philosophical than technical. Read more ›
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As we previously spotted in an APK teardown, Google is finally smoothing out the rough edges of its collage tool. Read more ›
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It looks like fabric, feels like metal and is as light as rubber. Meet the Ming Polymesh—the 3D printed bracelet breaking new ground in horology. Read more ›
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Helicopters with guns have increasingly become an important part of Ukraine's air defense network. Read more ›
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Engineer Denis Stetskov, writing in a blog: The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago. Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue. We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes... Read more ›
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X has long been a hotbed for fake accounts, bots and other scammy behavior. Many of those dynamics have been exacerbated by the rise of paid verification, which boosts the visibility of anyone who pays for a subscription. Now, the company is running a small experiment that could help users better identify potentially suspicious accounts.The service is starting to test a new "about this account" feature that will provide details... Read more ›
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Apple plans to announce new products "this week," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter, Gurman said the products set to be updated this week include the iPad Pro, Vision Pro, and "likely" the base 14-inch MacBook Pro, with all three likely to receive a spec bump with Apple's next-generation M5 chip. Gurman does not expect Apple to hold an event to announce these products. Instead, there... Read more ›
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The 1 petaflop DGX Spark system runs AI models with 200 billion parameters locally for $4K. Read more ›
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“Ice XXI” is an entirely new phase of ice with a crystal structure that’s more complex than the ice found on Titan or Ganymede. Read more ›
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The new wave of thin phones started at the top, but there are already mid-range versions. Motorola’s is called the Moto X70 Air and it measures a hair under 6mm thick and weighs 159g. The phone has a 6.7” screen, a 120Hz OLED with 1220p+ resolution. It’s a flat panel with 4,500 nits peak brightness and a 50MP selfie camera punch-holed into it. There’s a fingerprint reader below it too.... Read more ›
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The thin and light Moto X70 Air is not the only new Motorola smartphone launched today, as it’s joined by a new variant of the Moto G100. Moto G100 key specs We say new since Motorola already used the moniker for the Moto G100 (2021) nearly four years ago but the new version comes with a few notable upgrades. The key one is the much larger battery, which comes in... Read more ›
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GM previously said it would go all-electric by 2035, but it has scrapped those plans and is now focusing on gas and hybrid cars. Read more ›
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The Georgia congresswoman said that manufacturers have told her that they're having problems due to Trump's tariffs. Read more ›
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Intel has unveiled its Crescent Island data center GPU for inference, built on the Xe3P architecture and equipped with 160 GB of LPDDR5X memory. Read more ›
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Calls, texts and information from military and corporate accounts were exposed and unencrypted, according to a report. T-Mobile has since fixed the problem, but others have not. Read more ›
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You'll get access to Windows 10 a little longer by doing this. (Getty Images) You've known it for a while: Microsoft has determined that it's moving Windows 10 to "end of life" status starting on October 14. That means while Windows 10 PCs will continue to work after that date, they'll stop getting important security updates by default. That leaves you with three choices if you want to make sure... Read more ›
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The FCC has submitted a proposal that would make it harder for consumers to receive itemized bills with accurate information from their ISPs, as spotted by The Verge. The draft would revise previous "unnecessary" requirements on the grounds that a fact-based list of charges "may confuse customers." This comes as a response to complaints by ISPs over a Biden-era transparency rule that went into effect back in 2024. Compliance with... Read more ›
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You'll get access to Windows 10 a little longer by doing this. (Getty Images) Are you still running Windows 10 on your PC? Starting tomorrow, October 14, Microsoft is moving the software to "end of life" status. What does that mean for you? While Windows 10 PCs will continue to work after that date, they'll stop getting important security updates by default. That leaves you with three choices if you... Read more ›
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Google's Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside former Google employee John Martinis, and University of California, Berkeley professor John Clarke. This is the second year in a row that current or former Google employees have been awarded the prestigious prize: In 2024, a former Google vice president was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel... Read more ›
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Ford is cutting the price of the 2026 F-150 Lightning by up to $4,000, as confirmed by the automaker to CarsDirect. The price cuts vary by trim, however, and will only apply to more expensive packages for the electric pickup truck. This comes as the $7,500 EV tax credit expired at the end of September. The 2026 model has a starting price of $63,345 for the STX trim, which is... Read more ›
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This year's fall Prime Day is almost on the books. But you still have time to save on some of our favorite tech. Yes, it's October and it's a little early to start thinking about holiday shopping. But it would be remiss to ignore the upcoming festivities entirely because you can actually save some money on good gadgets during this sale. But let's be real: Amazon doesn't always make it... Read more ›
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October Prime Day is in full swing, and as always, we've put together a list of the best, most-discounted extra storage options for consoles and gaming PCs. Our guide to the top storage deals is split into three categories — tiny microSD cards (including a few compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2), portable external SSDs and generally faster (but more labor-intensive) internal SSDs. Whether you're building a gaming rig or... Read more ›
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Proton VPN, my favorite VPN service right now, has expanded its free plan in response to surging demand for free VPNs. As Proton's general manager announced by tweeting in French and later in Norwegian, free users now have access to servers in Canada and Norway, joining the existing locations in the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, Poland, Romania and Singapore. Free servers in all eight countries are now visible on... Read more ›
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If you finally got your hands on a Nintendo Switch 2 and have been loading it up with games, the thought of storage expansion may have crossed your mind by now (maybe more than once). But since the Switch 2 is only compatible with newer microSD Express cards, the pickings are slim at the moment. You can't just buy any microSD card on sale for Prime Day — but day... Read more ›
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Best Buy is holding a sitewide sale on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs with steep discounts up to $700 off. This is fantastic timing, given that Microsoft ends official support for Windows 10 this week. If you're thinking about upgrading, now is likely the time. One cool deal here is for a souped-up version of the Microsoft Surface 7 laptop. This one ships with a Snapdragon X Plus processor, 32GB of RAM... Read more ›
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