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Best Labor Day TV deals 2025: Save almost 50% on Samsung, LG, and more

2025-08-31 14:21:02                zdnet.com

The NFL pre-season is well underway, and Labor Day weekend is here. That means you can find TV deals from brands like Samsung, LG, Hisense, and more.

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Best Labor Day laptop deals 2025: Sales on Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and more

2025-08-31 14:13:19                zdnet.com

These are the best laptop deals I've found for Labor Day, many of which we've tested and recommended.

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Best Labor Day phone deals 2025: Save up to $300 on Samsung, Google, and more

2025-08-31 14:10:06                zdnet.com

Labor Day is tomorrow, and retailers like Amazon and Best Buy have plenty of phone discounts from brands like Samsung, OnePlus, Google, and more.

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The 13+ best Labor Day deals live now: Save on Apple, Samsung and more

2025-08-31 14:06:43                zdnet.com

Labor Day weekend has arrived, and we've rounded up our favorite sales, from Apple products to appliances.

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My favorite Bluetti power stations are on sale for Labor Day

2025-08-31 14:02:58                zdnet.com

You can save up to $700 on these field-tested power stations, perfect for camping, RVs, and running a CPAP machine off the grid or during a blackout.

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How a small subwoofer caught this audiophile off guard (and in the best way possible)

2025-08-31 10:45:18                zdnet.com

The aptly named Pebble X Plus has the tiniest subwoofer I've seen - but it delivers impressively full, punchy audio.

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AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help

2025-08-31 10:10:09                theregister.com

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics.…

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Finally, a lightweight Windows laptop that could seriously replace my MacBook Air

2025-08-31 10:00:17                zdnet.com

The LG Gram 17 (2025), powered by Intel's Lunar Lake chip, delivers notable improvements in battery life and cooling performance.

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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

2025-08-31 10:00:00                wired.com

The FTC notified companies like Google, Meta, and Apple that they must not apply the Digital Services Act, which regulates digital platforms, if it jeopardizes the freedom of Americans.

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Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

2025-08-31 09:40:01                bloomberg.com

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: Crypto and tech entrepreneurs are attending Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan in Forest City, Malaysia, to test his concepts about the Network State  —  Balaji Srinivasan wants to design a new kind of nation state, and he's making a troubled megaproject a testbed for his ideas.

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VN80 and the AI talent test

2025-08-31 09:30:57                techinasia.com

Our list of Asian contributors to the world’s top AI models includes Vietnamese talent. What would it take to get them back to Vietnam?

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I tested smart glasses with built-in hearing aids - and they worked surprisingly well

2025-08-31 09:30:18                zdnet.com

Nuance Audio's smart glasses offer a discreet, innovative alternative to traditional hearing aids, featuring built-in speakers and a powerful companion app.

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I threw out my ice packs after trying this smart cooler - and it's $440 off right now

2025-08-31 09:00:18                zdnet.com

Say goodbye to melting ice with the Anker Solix EverFrost 2 - a battery-powered cooler that keeps items cold for up to three days, no ice required.

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These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch screen to work with - and the price is hard to beat

2025-08-31 08:45:17                zdnet.com

XR glasses are now a must-have for my travels, and RayNeo's Air 3s Pro offers strong features at an accessible price.

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Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off

2025-08-31 07:00:13                theregister.com

Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process Feature  After a decade or two of the cloud, we're used to paying for our computing capability by the megabyte. As AI takes off, the whole cycle promises to repeat itself again, and while AI might seem relatively cheap now, it might not always be so.…

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A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI's impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)

2025-08-31 06:10:00                noahpinion.blog

Noah Smith / Noahpinion: A critique of two contrasting research papers on AI's impact on US employment trends, along with caveats from a Stanford study on jobs in AI-exposed fields  —  Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans.  Are they right?  —  The debate over whether AI …

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Justin Sun eyes ‘Swift’ for virtual asset sector, praises Hong Kong crypto moves

2025-08-31 04:00:09                scmp.com

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun says he is trying to establish the Tron blockchain, which he founded and launched in 2018, as the virtual asset industry’s answer to Swift – the main messaging network used by the global banking system – on the back of a surge in stablecoin transactions around the world. “I estimate that our facilitated transactions will exceed Swift’s in the next five years,” Sun, 35, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post. He added that the transaction...

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A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)

2025-08-31 02:05:01                newyorker.com

Joshua Rothman / New Yorker: A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression  —  We're used to algorithms guiding our choices.  When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination?

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Cambridge, UK-based Paragraf, which makes graphene-based electronics using standard semiconductor processes, raised a $55M Series C to scale its manufacturing (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

2025-08-31 02:00:02                tech.eu

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Cambridge, UK-based Paragraf, which makes graphene-based electronics using standard semiconductor processes, raised a $55M Series C to scale its manufacturing  —  Paragraf pioneers graphene-based electronics with standard semiconductor processes, producing magnetic sensors and GMS while developing advanced devices.

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AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

2025-08-31 01:30:00                businessinsider.com

Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47  —  - Aurasell is emerging from stealth with $30 million in seed funding.  — The one-year-old AI startup wants to disrupt legacy sales software.

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Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI (Wall Street Journal)

2025-08-31 00:55:02                wsj.com

Wall Street Journal: Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI  —  With growing fears of an AI bubble, Beijing is charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of artificial superintelligence

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PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India, seeking acquisitions as growth slows in China and the US, and plans to invest at least $50M annually (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

2025-08-31 00:45:01                ft.com

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: PUBG developer Krafton is eyeing major expansion in India, seeking acquisitions as growth slows in China and the US, and plans to invest at least $50M annually  —  South Korea's Krafton faces a tough fight to wring revenues from price-sensitive players  —  The South Korean games developer …

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An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the "most emotionally intelligent matchmaker", planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

2025-08-30 22:30:02                wsj.com

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd on AI being the “most emotionally intelligent matchmaker”, planning an AI-powered matchmaking app, and more  —  She's spent nearly all of her working life atop the dating-app business, and believes artificial intelligence could be the matchmaker we all need

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El Salvador has split its 6,000+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)

2025-08-30 20:25:01                cointelegraph.com

Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: El Salvador has split its 6,000+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now  —  El Salvador has transferred its 6,274 Bitcoin into 14 new wallet addresses as part of a security measure to protect against the threat of quantum attacks.

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An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic "algorithm films" intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (Phil Hoad/The Guardian)

2025-08-30 19:40:00                theguardian.com

Phil Hoad / The Guardian: An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style  —  When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs.

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How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens (Tor Blog)

2025-08-30 17:40:01                blog.torproject.org

Tor Blog: How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens  —  In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention.  Tor would come to understand that this marked …

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My favorite affordable phone cases are BOGO free (including for the new Google Pixel 10 series)

2025-08-30 16:58:10                zdnet.com

Casely's Labor Day sale is here with cases starting at 2 for $30, thanks to a sweet BOGO offer. Plus, shipping is free.

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Indonesia protests: A Grab motorcycle driver killed in Makassar

2025-08-30 16:33:03                techinasia.com

The 25-year-old driver was attacked by a crowd who suspected him of being an undercover agent.

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Best Costco Labor Day deals 2025: 15+ sales up to $1,700 off

2025-08-30 15:55:10                zdnet.com

Shop Costco's Labor Day sale online right now, with major deals from brands like Apple, Lenovo, LG, and more.

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The 13+ best Walmart Labor Day deals 2025: Sales on Apple, Samsung, LG, and more

2025-08-30 15:45:50                zdnet.com

Labor Day weekend is here, and we found great deals on tech at Walmart, including headphones, tablets, smartwatches, and more.

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The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

2025-08-30 15:40:00                wsj.com

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks  —  With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch

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Best Labor Day smartwatch deals 2025: Sales on Apple, Google, and Samsung watches

2025-08-30 15:31:17                zdnet.com

Labor Day Weekend is here. Find deals on some of the best smartwatches and fitness trackers on the market.

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The Idea Man’s Last Big Idea: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in his own words

2025-08-30 15:13:37                geekwire.com

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: In light of his estate’s launch of the new $3.1 billion Fund for Science and Technology, we revisit a classic 2011 interview with the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to explore the “Idea Man” mindset that continues to shape his legacy. The conversation reveals the personal motivations behind his “big bet” philanthropy, his candid thoughts on his partnership with Bill Gates, and his passion for everything from brain science to jamming with rock stars. Related stories and links:  With Todd Bishop and Kurt Schlosser.

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Indonesia protests: TikTok suspends its Live feature nationwide

2025-08-30 15:08:46                techinasia.com

Some users in Indonesia reported losing access to TikTok Live on the evening of August 30, 2025.

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Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident (David Gilbert/Wired)

2025-08-30 14:20:01                wired.com

David Gilbert / Wired: Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident  —  WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.

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Grin and gadget: Can a startup’s $120 electric flosser finally change my dental habits?

2025-08-30 14:11:12                geekwire.com

I’ve been told by dentists and dental hygienists for the better part of my life that I could do a better job of flossing my teeth. It took an interview with a startup founder and the chance to try a unique product for me to finally consider a real change in habits. “You’re not alone,” said Brynn MacLennan. “Most people do not floss at all, and those that do mostly do it incorrectly. And that’s why we invented our product.” MacLennan is co-founder and CEO of Slate, a Spokane, Wash.-based maker of an electric flosser. MacLennan has a background as… Read More

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 30)

2025-08-30 14:00:00                singularityhub.com

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. Here are our latest picks. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 30) appeared first on SingularityHub.

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Alibaba sees strong consumer mindshare in instant commerce push

2025-08-30 13:00:09                scmp.com

E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has won “consumer mindshare” amid its instant commerce push, according to company executives and analysts, to regain growth momentum in the highly competitive domestic market. The Chinese tech conglomerate’s New York-listed shares jumped 13 per cent to close at US$135 on Friday, after reporting robust earnings growth in the June quarter on the back of confidence on the mainland’s instant commerce sector. On Friday’s earnings call, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu...

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TikTok suspends its live feature for the "next few days" in Indonesia, citing "increasing violence in protests" over lawmakers' pay (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)

2025-08-30 12:30:01                reuters.com

Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters: TikTok suspends its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia, citing “increasing violence in protests” over lawmakers' pay  —  ByteDance's TikTok has suspended its live feature for the “next few days” in Indonesia following protests in the country, its spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.

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The best iPhone 15 screen protectors of 2025: Expert tested

2025-08-30 12:00:18                zdnet.com

Habitual phone-dropper? Fear no more--we've rounded up the best iPhone 15 screen protectors available now.

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One of the most underrated smartwatches I've tested just set a 55-hour battery life record

2025-08-30 11:15:18                zdnet.com

The Suunto Race 2 is a standout sports watch, offering personalized coaching plans and a bright, clear display.

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Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7% (Cory Weinberg/The Information)

2025-08-30 11:10:03                theinformation.com

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7%  —  Even as StubHub makes a renewed push to go public, its business isn't expanding as quickly as it had hoped.

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I deciphered Apple's iPhone 17 event invite, and it led me down a rabbit hole of theories

2025-08-30 11:00:18                zdnet.com

All eyes are on Apple for its next iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods lineup - here's what could happen in September.

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This iPhone trick hides my apps in a secret folder only I can access - here's why I love it

2025-08-30 11:00:00                zdnet.com

It's not what you think. I just don't want my daughter seeing YouTube.

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Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too

2025-08-30 10:41:08                theregister.com

We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming opinion  To fight the enshittification of software, the first step is to pinpoint why and how it happens. Some observers are trying to do that.…

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I replaced my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with the Pixel 10 Pro XL for a week - and can't go back

2025-08-30 10:00:17                zdnet.com

Google's newest flagship phones seamlessly integrate AI into your everyday apps - whether you're ready for it or not.

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How a legacy hardware company reinvented itself in the AI age

2025-08-30 10:00:00                zdnet.com

Cisco shares a lesson for us all: Adapt, adapt, and adapt some more.

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A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

2025-08-30 09:40:00                bloomberg.com

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: A study focused on OpenAI's GPT-4o mini found that LLMs can be persuaded to comply with objectionable requests using the same tactics that persuade humans  —  AI chatbots can be manipulated much in the same way that people can, according to researchers.  But first...  Three things to know:

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Why this midrange Lenovo laptop is the one I recommend to most people

2025-08-30 09:30:18                zdnet.com

Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 3i offers great value on a budget, with a full-size keyboard, solid port selection, and an affordable price tag.

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Biotech firms deal a one-two punch

2025-08-30 09:30:18                techinasia.com

Inxmed, Vaxxas, TransBnk, and more raised funds this week.