Check out this tech news: Apple M5 chip... https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/
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Source: TechCrunch | Published: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:30:09 +0000 | ID: 0d538e1e9ed8
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Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda β a $599 camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl and take pictures of whatβs inside.
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Check out this tech news: Something from βspaceβ may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah... https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/something-from-space-may-have-just-struck-a-united-airlines-flight-over-utah/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:41:55 +0000 | ID: 935b424799fe
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The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White House and numerous other government agencies joining Bluesky on Friday.
Check out this tech news: The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/the-white-house-is-already-one-of-the-most-blocked-accounts-on-bluesky/
Check out this tech news: Teen sues to destroy the nudify app that left her in constant fear... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/teen-haunted-by-fake-nudes-sues-to-kill-nudify-app-block-telegram-bots/
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X is testing a change to the way it handles links on iOS so that the buttons to like, reply, and repost will always be visible. Normally, when you click a link on X the page opens up and completely co...
Check out this tech news: X is changing how it handles links to try and keep you in the app... https://www.theverge.com/news/802480/x-is-changing-how-it-handles-links-to-try-and-keep-you-in-the-app
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From Apple TV Plus to Peacock, a number of streaming services have recently increased their pricing β and Disney Plus is no exception. Starting on Tuesday, October 21st, the standalone plan with ads w...
Check out this tech news: This weekend is your last chance to get a month of Disney Plus starting at $9.99... https://www.theverge.com/tech/801979/disney-plus-premium-october-price-hike-deal
Check out this tech news: Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/
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Saturday marked the biggest day of protest since the start of Donald Trumpsβ second term. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven million people took to the streets to declare th...
Check out this tech news: Organizers say over 7 million showed up to No Kings protests... https://www.theverge.com/news/802321/organizers-say-over-7-million-showed-up-to-no-kings-protests
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To understand the Sony Watchman, you have to go back. Way back. Back to when "TV" wasn't just a way to refer to any piece of content between 20 and 89 minutes, available on every screen everywhere for...
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The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser is recognizing that it's not just a browser with an AI bot added to it, but a browser with three AI bots all living side by side. This is both a strengt...
Check out this tech news: Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are... https://www.theverge.com/tech/801899/opera-neon-ai-browser-trial-run
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A federal judge has granted Meta-owned WhatsAppβs request for a permanent injunction blocking Israeli cyberintelligence company NSO Group from targeting the messaging appβs users. At the same time, th...
Check out this tech news: Spyware maker NSO Group blocked from WhatsApp... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/spyware-maker-nso-group-blocked-from-whatsapp/
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Research paper by Haiwen Diao, Mingxuan Li, Silei Wu et al.. The edifice of native Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has emerged as a rising contender to typical modular VLMs, shaped by evolving model arc...
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Research paper by Nupur Kumari, Sheng-Yu Wang, Nanxuan Zhao et al.. Recent image editing models have achieved impressive results while following natural language editing instructions, but they rely on...
Check out this tech news: The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe... https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse
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Premium Plus and Premium Business users will soon be able to browse and request inactive usernames on the X Handle Marketplace. Handles are going to be broken up into two broad categories. Priority ha...
Check out this tech news: X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles... https://www.theverge.com/news/802474/x-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-inactive-handles
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I've read a lot of horror books over the last two years. But my absolute favorite is easily Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night. The book was originally published in 2019 in Argentina, but it only go...
Check out this tech news: You need to read the epic Argentinian horror novel Our Share of Night... https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/802340/you-need-to-read-the-epic-argentinian-horror-novel-our-share-of-night
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By the time I arrived, the waterfront park in downtown Portland, Oregon was already awash with people as far as the eye could see. The No Kings protest in June had turned out around 10,000 people acro...
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Research paper by Hadi Alzayer, Yunzhi Zhang, Chen Geng et al.. We present an inference-time diffusion sampling method to perform multi-view consistent image editing using pre-trained 2D image editing...
Check out this tech news: 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment... https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/this-is-definitely-my-last-twitchcon-high-profile-streamer-emiru-was-assaulted-at-the-event-even-as-streamers-have-been-sounding-the-alarm-about-stalkers-and-harassment/
Check out this tech news: mRNA covid vaccines spark immune response that may aid cancer survival... https://www.newscientist.com/article/2500546-mrna-covid-vaccines-spark-immune-response-that-may-aid-cancer-survival/
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I'm a reviewer (PC) and donβt have a submission myself, but honestly, this is the weirdest reviewing process Iβve ever experienced. 1. Phase 2 papers are worse than Phase 1. In Phase 1, I reviewed fou...
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Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz is onto his next thing β teenage founders, not as a social experiment but as an unplanned investment thesis.
Check out this tech news: This top VC has bet close to 20% of his fund on teenagers β hereβs why... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/this-top-vc-bet-close-to-20-of-his-fund-on-teenagers-heres-why/
Check out this tech news: YouTubers arenβt relying on ad revenue anymore β hereβs how some are diversifying... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/youtubers-arent-relying-on-ad-revenue-anymore-heres-how-some-are-diversifying/
Check out this tech news: Big Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is βbroad censorship regimeβ... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/big-tech-sues-texas-says-age-verification-law-is-broad-censorship-regime/
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Research paper by Wenqian Zhang, Weiyang Liu, Zhen Liu. The design of complex machines stands as both a marker of human intelligence and a foundation of engineering practice. Given recent advances in ...
Check out this tech news: Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/
Check out this tech news: Roberta Williamsβ The Colonelβs Bequest was a different type of adventure game... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/10/roberta-williams-the-colonels-bequest-was-a-different-type-of-adventure-game/
Check out this tech news: With deadline looming, 4 of 9 universities reject Trumpβs βcompactβ to remake higher ed... https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/with-deadline-looming-4-of-9-universities-reject-trumps-compact-to-remake-higher-ed/
Check out this tech news: Vaginal condition treatment update: Men should get treated, too... https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/vaginal-condition-treatment-update-men-should-get-treated-too/
Check out this tech news: Dead Ends is a fun, macabre medical history for kids... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/dead-ends-is-a-fun-macabre-medical-history-for-kids/