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YouTube’s redesign brings one annoying change, but I found a workaround
YouTube is going all in on Custom Feeds , with a big home screen redesign that’s equal parts confusing and infuriating. In the process of creating prompt-based, short-lived suggestion feeds, we’ve lost our dear friend, the Subscriptions tab. Instead, we now see the “Subs” section at the top of the Home page. As someone who uses YouTube as their preferred binge-watching platform, relying on a curated list of only the…
USAF successfully tests dropping SpaceX Starfall cargo drop pods from space — 2,200-pound capsule drops military supplies in the Pacific to test StarCraft-like supply drops
The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the research and development arm of the US Air Force, has successfully tested Rocket Cargo capabilities, which would allow military units to resupply via cargo pods dropped from space. According to the AFRL’s X post, the cargo pods, which were onboard a SpaceX Starfall capsule, launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as part of the Bandwagon-5 “rideshare” mission…
Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work
A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models reliably pick the right moment in longer videos, as errors compound and response quality drops sharply. The article Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work appeared first on The Decoder .
The Pixel 11 Pro’s 5x zoom portrait mode is mind-blowing, and you have to try it
Telephoto cameras on our phones are played out, right? After all, there’s one on the back of most big-name flagship phones, and we’ve been spoiled with 3x, 5x, and even 10x optical zooms for a while. You can even buy teleconverter kits for some phones to extend the zoom range even further. Equally, portrait modes are just as common and a feature we probably all take for granted. The Google Pixel 11 Pro has done…
6 Perfect 'Peanuts' Comics from the 1960s that Prove Charles Schulz is a Genius
By the 1960s, Schulz hit his sweet spot with well-defined characters and a freshness to the material which would sometimes flag in the decades to come. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of hilarious, heartwarming, and inspired Peanuts comics from the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, but taken as a whole, nothing tops 1960s Peanuts .
College student unofficially breaks world record for fastest jet-powered drone with 491 mph aircraft built in his dorm — Reaper aims to grab the $800,000 Boom Prize
A new 'Reaper' jet-powered drone project just unofficially broke the previous drone speed world record of 465 mph by hitting 491 mph. Tomas Salvo is an aerospace engineering student at Georgia Tech, and his project was assembled in his dorm room. The drone is comprised of a custom-molded carbon fiber shell, laser-cut internal structure, and a 250N jet engine with a titanium 3D-printed nozzle, costing $13,000 to…
INIU Outdoor Rugged 20000 power bank — Heavy-duty power for phones, drones, and laptops
Credit: INIU Outdoor Though charging is hard to come by during multi-day hikes or long weekend camping trips, the electronics you carry can still add up quickly. Your phone handles maps and photos, a smartwatch tracks your mileage, and your e-reader gets you through a quiet evening in the tent. Add an action or DSLR camera, a drone, or a laptop, and most power banks will run dry before you head home. And the ones…
Should you repair your phone or replace it? We did the math
The new Apple iPhone Duo has done much more than give fire to the conversation around foldable phones. It has also stirred up the conversation around repair costs — with its display replacement costing as much as a new iPhone 18 Pro — and how far we can reasonably take them, with ever-increasing smartphone prices. There is a threshold up until which repairing your phone makes sense, but beyond a point, it’s wiser to…
Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
Pikmin 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition launches 12th November and a demo is out tomorrow
Pikmin 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will launch on 12th November, bundled with a new mode called Dandori Academy.
Here are the easiest ways to share your live location on Android
There are a variety of reasons you might want to share your live location with a contact on your Android phone . Maybe you’re meeting up in a crowded area with few visual landmarks. Maybe someone wants to track your journey home to see that you arrive safely. Or you might be on your way to visit someone, and you want them to see your progress as it happens. Whatever the reason, there are a few ways to share your…
Welcome to the New Era of Video Game Adaptations
Buckle up, because that trend is about to kick into full gear. This week, we got a flood of news stories confirming that Hollywood is in a full-on gold rush. The film rights to video games are currently getting snapped up at an alarming rate. While that’s not exactly new for an industry that has a long history of eyeing game movies that never pass the scripting phase, we’re actually seeing significant developments…
Yoshida’s Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold Delay Throws It Into the Busiest Month of Early 2027, Launching the Same Day as Fable
Square Enix has delayed Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold from its original January 2027 release window to February 23, 2027, and that new date puts the MMORPG's sixth expansion right in the middle of what's shaping up to be one of the most crowded months for game releases in recent memory. Just look at the stiff competition: February 2027 opens with Metro 2039 on February 4, then Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis arrives…
OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing
OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. More complex models consume more of this quota, while simple instant chats do not count toward it. In practice, this is likely to result in a decline in ChatGPT’s quality for heavy users on lower-cost plans. The article OpenAI's upcoming…
20 Years Later, The Departed's Best Line Is Still One Of The Greatest Quotes In Gangster Movie History
In crime cinema, a lethal line of dialogue can carry just as much weight as a loaded gun. Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas hooks audiences with Henry Hill's seductive declaration, “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster,” framing a life of crime as the ultimate aspiration. Miller's Crossing features Tom Reagan's wonderfully blunt take on underworld survival, while Casino , Scarface , and The…
Forget Jason Statham, the Best Action Movie of the Last 30 Years Is Back on Netflix
Harrison Ford spent decades making wildly implausible heroes feel like ordinary guys having a terrible day. An archaeologist outrunning a giant boulder? Sure. A space smuggler taking on an evil empire? Absolutely. In Air Force One , he pulls off something that now feels considerably more farfetched: an American president you’d trust with your life.
24 Years Later, the Funniest Lord of the Rings Movie Quote Is Still a Legendary Fantasy Line
Somewhere in Middle-earth, is there a Chili’s that serves orcs? Does an Uruk-hai host greet hungry customers, tell them it’ll be a 20-minute wait, and hand them a menu? Does the kitchen run out of manflesh halfway through the dinner rush? Is halfling served as an appetizer? What precisely is in the Triple Dipper? These are unreasonable questions to ask of an otherwise perfect fantasy epic. Unfortunately, The Lord of…
Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator Early Access Preview – Shall We Begin?!
Spartacus: Blood and Sand is, simply put, a masterpiece. It's one of my favourite series, with Blood & Sand being one of the best seasons of TV ever put on screen. Gods of the Arena was a great prequel produced while Andy Whitfield was undergoing cancer treatment. Vengeance and War of the Damned may have dipped at times, but I still thoroughly enjoyed them. Since then, anything gladiatorial has caught my eye. I've…
Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon
Nace AI has released Drex Max v1 as open weights . Drex Max is its most capable decision model, and it now runs on your own hardware. The release ships bf16 weights, a Q8_0 GGUF , an affine Q4 checkpoint and forks of llama.cpp and Ollama . For developers, Drex Max open weights mean routing, classification and policy checks can stay on a local machine. TL;DR Size: Dense 27B parameters, 262,144-token window (16,384 by…
DeepSeek Open-Sources dsh-superagent, a Router-Worker Coding Agent
The DeepSeek Harness team just released dsh-superagent , an MIT-licensed research prototype. DeepSeek dsh-superagent is a proactive coding agent for one GitHub repository. It is packaged as a bundle for DeepSeek Harness . It listens to GitHub and, optionally, Feishu. It turns allowed requests into parallel work items, each in its own agent session. The release shipped alongside a design post, Exploring Super-agent…
9 Years Later, Jon Bernthal’s Action Series Is a Masterpiece From Start to Finish
Ever since superhero movies and television became popular, fans have debated which actors are the perfect fit for their characters. The debate has escalated over the years, especially when multiple actors have played iconic characters like Superman and Spider-Man . Nine years ago, one of the best actor-to-character pairings came when Jon Bernthal took on Frank Castle in The Punisher . In the process, Bernthal…
Ridley Scott's Near-Perfect Sci-Fi Masterpiece is Waiting to Be Rediscovered on Streaming
The ‘70s and ‘80s was a major turning point for science fiction . Star Wars revitalized the genre in 1977 and turned it into one of Hollywood’s main box office draws, inspiring a wave of films that reshaped the entire industry. Two years later, Ridley Scott threw down the gauntlet with Alien , taking a big step away from the optimism that had once permeated sci-fi pulp storytelling and instead infusing it with…
Forza co-creator Dan Greenawalt is reportedly leaving Microsoft
<p>Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, <a href="https://zedgamesau.net/tag/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Zed Games</a>. He's written for <a…
All 8 Dungeon Crawler Carl Books Ranked (by Their Goodreads Score)
Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl takes one of fantasy's oldest setups and throws it into a blender with reality television, apocalyptic horror, and video game logic, creating a series that has evolved into one of the biggest breakout hits in modern speculative fiction. The premise is fairly simple, starting with a fight for survival inside an alien-dominated game show that escalates into a sprawling saga of…