The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15, AI Assistant, Symbolic Music, More [8d]
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- NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects [8d]
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- Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time [8d]
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- Reinventing the Renaissance [8d]
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- Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem [8d]
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- The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy [8d]
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- Data Compression Explained [8d]
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- Total Iran Economic Damage Estimate [9d]
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- GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 and official releases are coming soon [9d]
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- Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust [9d]
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- Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS [9d]
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- Nobody clicks your share buttons [9d]
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- AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier [9d]
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- Databricks Launches LTAP: A Unified OLAP/OLTP Data Architecture [9d]
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- U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears [9d]
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- S‑CURVES a field guide to technology adoption · 1825–2026 [9d]
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- Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves [9d]
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- The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear [9d]
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- Inference cost at scale with napkin math [9d]
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- Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction [9d]
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- Show HN: Azure DevOps TUI Management Style [9d]
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- Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless [9d]
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- A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse [9d]
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- GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands [9d]
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- Show HN: Pen and paper resource development game with an emergent world [9d]
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- 10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module [9d]
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- Claude: Elevated errors across many models [9d]
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- The octopus architecture for AI agents [9d]
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- Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts [9d]
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- Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? [9d]
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- 'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York [9d]
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- Specs Augmented Reality Glasses [9d]
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- Stop Using JWTs [9d]
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- Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? [9d]
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- TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP [9d]
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- Making ast.walk 220x Faster [9d]
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- Never Talk to the Police. Period [9d]
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- GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz [9d]
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- Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness [9d]
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- Mental causation is not load-bearing [9d]
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- Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity [9d]
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- Show HN: BlitzGraph – Supabase for graphs, built for LLM agents [9d]
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- UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts [9d]
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- CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds [9d]
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- Fable ban was never about a jailbreak [9d]
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- After AI Takes Everything [9d]
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- How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s [9d]
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- Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers [9d]
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- Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder [9d]
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- Visiting the History of Computing and Play [9d]
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- Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small [9d]
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- Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets [9d]
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- Running local models is good now [9d]
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- World Cup 2026: Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years [9d]
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- But yak shaving is fun [9d]
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- I Fired Google [9d]
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- Show HN: Hackers for Granny (defense against industrialized elder fraud) [9d]
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- The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse [9d]
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- Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers [9d]
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- Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence [9d]
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- A Love Story [9d]
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- Is Fable 5 Back? [9d]
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- Show HN: Voice Age Verification [9d]
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- Our Achilles Heel [9d]
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- 'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today [9d]
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- AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents? [9d]
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- SpaceX Is Buying Cursor [9d]
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- Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland [9d]
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- Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air [9d]
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- Show HN: Spin Lab [9d]
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- SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO [9d]
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- The 2-Year Apartment Rule [9d]
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- Anthropic pauses its anticipated move to token-based billing for Claude Agent SDK that it planned to implement on June 15, saying "Nothing changes for now" (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica) [8d]
- SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (CNBC) [8d]
- Sources: PayPal to shutter its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid a broader shakeup under a new CEO and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions (Ben Weiss/Fortune) [8d]
- Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany) [9d]
- Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) [9d]
- Zhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves coding and agentic tasks, with strong long-horizon capabilities and a 1M context window, under an MIT license (Z.ai) [9d]
- Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [9d]
- Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, debuting in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall (David Heaney/UploadVR) [9d]
- Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently valued at $2.75B, offers to buy LiveRamp's identity business from Publicis for $800M to $1.2B in cash and stock (Sara Fischer/Axios) [9d]
- A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours per charge, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses (Harry McCracken/Fast Company) [9d]
- Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first AR glasses that are "fully standalone" and have a 51-degree field of view, expected "this fall" in the US, UK, and France (Jay Peters/The Verge) [9d]
- Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option (Ina Fried/Axios) [9d]
- Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [9d]
- Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in 2021 (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters) [9d]
- Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [9d]
- Hydra Host, a marketplace for developers and enterprises to procure GPUs pooled from data center operators, raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [9d]
- Sources: the Trump administration won't allow G7 countries to regain access to Mythos 5 as doing so would be "completely illogical"; UK requested a "carve-out" (James Franey/New York Post) [9d]
- Sources: Binance is set to lose permission to offer services to EU clients from the start of July as its application for a license is about to be turned down (Reuters) [9d]
- Ent Security, which wants to build a new layer of workspace security that reads the intent behind what users and AI agents do, launches with $100M in funding (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) [9d]
- Limitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg (Meir Orbach/CTech) [9d]
- Microsoft upgrades Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips; Pro starts at $1,499 and Laptop at $1,599, both $100 higher than last-gen (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge) [9d]
- Copia, an industrial code management and recovery provider, raised $26M co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, after previously raising $16.4M (Colin Campbell/Axios) [9d]
- Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At) [9d]
- Roblox rolls out Roblox Kids accounts, for ages 5-8, and Roblox Select accounts, for ages 9-15, globally, after launching them in four countries last month (Jay Peters/The Verge) [9d]
- Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is reducing its full-time workforce by ~10%, or around 290 employees, as part of "flattening" its org structure (Helen Partz/Cointelegraph) [9d]
- Ripple acquires a stake in Flutterwave as part of the African payments startup's Series E, which values the company at $3.2B (Emele Onu/Bloomberg) [9d]
- An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a pardon (Simon van Zuylen-Wood/New York Magazine) [9d]
- Next-gen 128TB SSDs set to squeeze data on the fly thanks to a new smart chip — Longsys WM8500 promises a compression ratio of up to 2:1, creating a virtual 256TB SSD at a much lower price [8d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 17 (game #1102) [8d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, June 17 (game #836) [8d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, June 17 (game #1605) [8d]
- GM is getting in on the data center game — auto giant will start building huge sodium-ion batteries to help with energy storage [8d]
- Quote of the day by former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: 'Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution' — commentary on society's relationship with programming [8d]
- How to watch Argentina vs Algeria: Free Streams, TV Channels & Kick-Off time as Lionel Messi & Co start FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign [8d]
- Nvidia desperately wants to sell its latest Vera CPU to China after its market share 'effectively fallen to zero' but can it beat AMD, Intel, and Huawei? [9d]
- RAM crisis or not, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ should not cost anywhere near $1,800 — but I fear this is just the start of overpriced handhelds [9d]
- 'These attacks don't look like break-ins' — HP warns hackers are turning popular remote access tools into dangerous, stealthy backdoors [9d]
- 'You can’t hide the sound of an engine' — Inside the revolutionary Czech AI acoustic shield designed to hunt low-flying drones, which could soon come to a street near you [9d]
- How to watch Iraq vs Norway: Free Streams & TV Channels for FIFA World Cup 2026 [9d]
- Walmart's rival Prime Day sale starts next week — here are 18 deals worth shopping right now from Ninja, Apple, Bissell, Samsung, and more [9d]
- Maine takes down its data breach notification portal after it is flooded by fake claims [9d]
- Over 1 million WordPress sites at risk after popular plugin hacked — OptinMonster among those hit in CDN supply-chain attack [9d]
- What is the release date for Sugar season 2 on Apple TV? [9d]
- 'We are building a global movement' — UK's teen social media ban sparks a campaign to defend the open internet [9d]
- Amid reports of closures to Ninja Theory and Compulsion Games, Xbox Game Studios CEO Craig Duncan is stepping down from the role after less than two years [9d]
- Lara Croft actress says the Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis version of the character is 'completely self-possessed as a woman without being overtly sexualized,' which is something that she and the team 'talked about at length' [9d]
- Take-Two CEO reaffirms GTA 6 release date and says the wait is so long because Rockstar 'seek to do something that’s never been done before' [9d]
- Microsoft 365 Copilot can be turned into a one-click data theft tool — inbox, OneDrive, and SharePoint data all at risk, so patch now [9d]
- ExpressVPN removes 30-day free trial during the World Cup — here are the VPNs with the best free trials to use instead [9d]
- My favorite air fryer proves you don’t need to spend loads to get great results — and it's on sale for under $70 ahead of Amazon Prime Day [9d]
- The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is still the high-performance CPU to beat — and right now it’s $60 off at Newegg with a free AIO Liquid Cooler [9d]
- 'A cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen' — The VPN industry reacts to the UK's teen social media ban [9d]
- I watched Toy Story 5 in Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision — and the new Pixar movie is a few Lightyears away from the Disney film series' best entries [9d]
- Amazon's early Prime Day TV deals are almost too good to be true — shop record-low prices on best-selling 4K and QLED TVs from $69.99 [9d]
- People are starting to think ChatGPT is too cheap — and that might be a problem for OpenAI [9d]
- Prime Day starts now with these savings of up to 65% on Amazon devices — Echo, Ring, Fire TV, and more from $12.99 [9d]
- Currys dropped two incredible OLED Copilot+ laptop deals for £599 — here’s how to choose between them [9d]
- I fought a possessed bus in Control Resonant’s 'paranaturally warped' Manhattan, and I can’t wait to battle more funky foes [9d]
- Google says Chinese hackers cracked Workspace security to hit 'a diverse set of national, state, and private medical entities' including research and defense organizations [9d]
- Do you pay for more mobile data than you actually use? The reason is psychological, says mobile data expert — here’s how to check your own data usage on iPhone or Android, and save money in the process [9d]
- This Seagate IronWolf Pro deal is a fantastic Father's Day gift for anyone who runs a NAS, manages a media library, or stores huge collections of photos and videos [9d]
- Intel CPU with integrated Nvidia RTX GPU rumored to arrive early in 2028 — and I can't wait to see this power up gaming laptops and handhelds [9d]
- How to watch France vs Senegal: Free Streams & TV Channels online from anywhere for FIFA World Cup 2026 [9d]
- Microsoft makes Copilot Cowork open to everyone, and wants to help you tackle even the trickiest work tasks [9d]
- Seagate 2TB hard drive deal: This $130 portable storage deal includes a crucial data protection perk [9d]
- Spotify and DoorDash are down for many right now —here's what we know about the outages [9d]
- In the age of AI-based threats, zero-trust is no longer enough [9d]
- Microsoft forced to turn to AWS to boost GitHub cloud capacity following AI demand surge [9d]
- Dutton Ranch episode 7 trailer queues up the next big problem for 10 Petal Ranch — and fans are convinced that Beulah's successors will have a Yellowstone connection [9d]
- The best Lego World Cup kits — including a soccer ball with a stadium-sized secret, a mini Messi, and your own golden trophy [9d]
- Save $100 on the Gigabyte Aero X16 — Best Buy drops the price on a RTX 5070 laptop for creators you can actually future-proof [9d]
- Popsockets unveils an insanely thin new Pospocket MagSafge grip for iPhone that's 'a labor of love,' but the story of the original iPhone grip might be even more inspiring [9d]
- 'They just moved to VPNs' — Telegram CEO slams UK's teen social media ban with stark Russian comparison [9d]
- Netflix just released a nail-biting trailer for new movie The Last House — and it's made me scared of my own home [9d]
- Lara Croft actress says Angelina Jolie's first Tomb Raider movie is her 'favorite' and that Crystal Dynamics 'used a lot of those scenes' for her Legacy of Atlantis auditions [9d]
- 'I think there’s going to be a lot of experimentation': Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon anticipates big changes in the AI space as it works on a whole host of new designs [9d]
- ‘A speed bump for your mind’: Commodore’s retro-inspired flip phone could be the perfect way to break your smartphone addiction [9d]
- Wish you could play Baldur's Gate 3 on Nintendo Switch 2? Another brilliant D&D RPG just hit the platform in time for its latest free update [9d]
- Microsoft reveals new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with big graphics upgrades from Snapdragon X2 CPUs — but they're seriously pricey [9d]
- Upgrade your home office — the feature-packed Koble Gino smart standing desk is 20% off at Argos [9d]
- HPE will let VMware users get a free year's license via its own tools [9d]
- 'The whole Gemini migration has been a dumpster fire': Gemini calls are broken on Android Auto and users are switching back to Google Assistant [9d]
- I watched a 90-minute AI movie made in just two weeks — and Hollywood can stop worrying, for now [9d]
- Google’s June Pixel update is packed with dozens of fixes [9d]
- Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods could launch alongside the foldable iPhone [9d]
- Google Photos may soon let you remix videos just like photos [9d]
- Samsung’s 49-inch Odyssey G9 drops to $665, its lowest price ever [9d]
- Is your Pixel getting Google’s massive Android update for June 2026? Here’s the full list [9d]
- Pixel Watches can now keep your inner circle notified in an emergency [9d]
- Pixel phones are now better at multitasking, thanks to Android 17’s Bubbles [9d]
- June Pixel Drop brings a Pixel 10-exclusive feature to the Pixel 10a [9d]
- Android 17 introduces a new Foldable Gaming Mode, but there’s a massive catch [9d]
- Wear OS 7 is arriving for your Pixel Watch, and here’s what to expect [9d]
- Android 17 stable is officially rolling out to Google Pixels, here’s what’s new! [9d]
- 8 new features coming to your Pixel phone with the June Pixel Drop [9d]
- Pixel phones now let you effortlessly record reaction videos, thanks to the June Pixel Drop [9d]
- Android 17 makes it easier for parents to manage their kids’ screen time with these new controls [9d]
- Google issues quick fix for broken Android Auto phone calls [9d]
- A 52% price drop gets you the Amazon Smart Plug 2-Pack at an all-time low [9d]
- XREAL makes the Aura XR glasses official, but is still holding back a key detail [9d]
- Lighter, cooler headsets are coming, thanks to Qualcomm’s latest silicon [9d]
- Snap launches Specs AR glasses, featuring crazy tech and crazier price [9d]
- The best robot mowers of 2026: Keep your yard tidy the smart way [9d]
- Want a Fitbit Air? Here’s how you might be able to get one tax-free [9d]
- The OnePlus 16 might finally give us the zero-bezel future we were promised [9d]
- Samsung confirms Galaxy Z Flip 7, Fold 7 will have major roles in new Spider-Man movie [9d]
- Verizon Simplicity is a new unlimited 5G plan that aims to clean up your phone bill [9d]
- This new wearable is trying to save you from yourself (and your phone) [9d]
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