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A new Android 14 Beta update dropped on Pixel devices this morning as Android 14 QPR1 Beta 2.2. This may not be Beta 3, but Google included a lengthy list of bug fixes that sure point to this being a bigger update that would usually jump us up another version. The update, like previous Android … Continued
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theodp writes: We all mix pictures, emojis, and text freely in our communications. So why not in our code? That's the premise of "Fun With Python and Emoji: What Might Adding Pictures to Text Programming Languages Look Like?" (two-image Bluesky explainer; full slides), which takes a look at what mixing emoji with Python and SQL might look like. A GitHub repo includes a Google Colab-ready Python notebook proof of concept... Read more ›
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The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday. In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he […] Read more ›
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The SBU said that it used the drone to strike a Russian Sea Dragon maritime recon aircraft, a key step for its later attack on the submarine. Read more ›
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It's a good thing that we already know a second season of Pluribus is on the way. Because the season finale for the show - a sci-fi drama on Apple TV, helmed by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan - made it clear that things are just getting started. The episode brought together a number of […] Read more ›
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Context matters as much as content in determining whether text is machine generated or not Read more ›
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Stowlog, a SaaS platform developed by Castellón-based Estudio Cactus, has closed a €1 million investment round to accelerate the digitisation of safety and security processes across port logistics operations. The round was led by Draper B1, a venture capital fund affiliated with the Draper Venture Network, with participation from First Drop and the Castellón-based technology ... Read more ›
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A judge ruled that Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications is legal and rejected the US Chamber of Commerce's effort to overturn the fee. Read more ›
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Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler's large servers. [...] The presentation at LPC 2025 by Meta engineers was in fact titled "How do we... Read more ›
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Jeffrey Epstein's wills named figures like Larry Summers and Jes Staley as possible executors, DOJ files show. Read more ›
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Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, The Information reported Tuesday. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to ... Read more ›
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The chances of winning the Powerball Grand Prize is much smaller than being struck by lightening, killed in a shark attack, or born on a Leap Day. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving,... Read more ›
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Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of social partners. Some genes promote certain microbes that can spread between individuals living together. When researchers accounted for this social sharing, genetic influence on the microbiome turned out to be much stronger than previously thought. The study suggests genes can affect others indirectly, without DNA ever being exchanged. Read more ›
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At just $72, these Blink cameras are budget-friendly, easy to install and definitely give you more than your money's worth. Read more ›
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Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 released. Google shipped Android 16 QPR2 to stable channels this month as the December Pixel update, bringing an end to several months of testing of beta software for many of us. What do we all do next? Well, Google almost always releases the next quarterly build in beta following that … Continued Read the original post: Android 16 QPR3 Beta Program Goes Live for Pixel... Read more ›
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All of Google’s still-supported Pixel devices received a huge QPR2 update in early December with new features and tons of bug fixes. We all assumed this would be the last update of the year and have mostly been waiting around for Google to give us a QPR3 beta to test out. And then this morning, … Continued Read the original post: Verizon Pixel 8, Pixel 9, and Pixel 10 Devices... Read more ›
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The mystery second December update that arrived on Pixel phones earlier in the week remains mostly a mystery today, but at least we have factory image files for it. The new December update first popped up on Pixel devices running on Verizon’s network, with the Pixel 8, Pixel 9, and Pixel 10 series devices all … Continued Read the original post: Google Confirms New December Pixel Update Read more ›
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Within the past several days, a group of Pixel owners noticed a change to the way the Search bar at the bottom of their Pixel Launcher home screen worked. Because this change was not an improvement in the eyes of many, they immediately took to places like reddit to question this change by Google and … Continued Read the original post: Google Makes Controversial Pixel Search Bar Change Read more ›
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You may have forgotten the timeline, but Google was pushing to force all off of Google Assistant and onto Gemini by the end of this year. Like with all things AI, the timing hasn’t quite worked out and they are instead “adjusting” that previous timeline to a later date within 2026. Google made the short … Continued Read the original post: Google Decides That Google Assistant Can Stick Around a... Read more ›
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Google is pulling out all of the promos from several services to try and get you to buy one of their new Pixel 10 series phones. We saw the Google Play $200-off deal earlier in the week that stacked on top of their current holiday offers, and now, we’re seeing YouTube Premium subscribers get a … Continued Read the original post: YouTube Premium Kicking 40% Off Pixel 10 for Subscribers Read more ›
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While we typically recommend buying phones unlocked and without a contract that ties you to a carrier, there are some exceptions that still put you on a carrier without all of the grease that comes with a contract. That might be confusing, but there is a Mint Mobile deal on the Pixel 10 Pro XL … Continued Read the original post: There’s a Way to Get $700 Off a Pixel... Read more ›
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Find Hub went live for Android devices earlier this year, ditching the beta tag that was previously attached. The app has now gained support for select Pixel Watch models, adding to its growing ecosystem. Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Watch 4 models are supported, but older models don’t have support. Whether they lack the necessary … Continued Read the original post: Find Hub App Comes to Select Pixel Watches Read more ›
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We did it, y’all. The multi-year battle is over. We won. Google has finally given in and is letting us fully turn off the “At a Glance” widget on Pixel phones and reclaim the space as our own. I almost can’t believe it. For those not familiar with what I’m referring to, Google has included … Continued Read the original post: Pixel’s At a Glance Can Finally Be Turned Off... Read more ›
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Google may have released Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 at the worst possible time of the day, but we’re still going to dive into it and share all the big new stuff. As the next quarterly update that will fix a whole bunch of bugs, this also has the potential to be a big feature … Continued Read the original post: What’s New in Android 16 QPR3 Beta: At a... Read more ›
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