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Designed in Copenhagen, the Habity bedside clock swaps your phone screen's glow for an eye-friendly e-paper display, gentle wake-up tones, and a local library of sleep sounds, all running fully offline with no app, account, or subscription. The dumbphone revival and the broader push to reclaim our attention
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * New watermarks on Claude content are upsetting some people. * Reactions reveal company priorities and human over-reliance on AI tools. * To avoid possible watermarks, write it yourself (sorry!). Last week, Anthropic announced it would start watermarking
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. ABC is suing the Federal Communications Commission over claims the agency “waged a retaliatory campaign” against its networks over the content they
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Comcast is bringing Wi-Fi motion sensing to millions of routers that are already in customers’ homes, turning the devices into activity monitors. A new update to the Xfinity Internet app, arriving today, August 18th, enables the feature on compatible Xfinity routers at no extra cost. Announced as part of its
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The demo that convinced me happened at an art exhibition I'd built myself. We couldn't afford a team of docents, so I put together a side project to stand in for one. There was no prompt box and nothing to type. You pointed your phone at
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* Star Wars: Galactic Racer has call-backs that span the whole film series * Iconic locations and recognizable characters will appear in the upcoming racing game * The game's set to launch on October 6, 2026 Star Wars: Galactic Racer is shaping up to be the ultimate racing experience for Star
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In Brief 6:28 AM PDT · August 18, 2026 Apple seems to be already preparing launch materials for its upcoming AirPods with a camera, a leaked video in the latest macOS update spotted by MacRumors suggests. The video, found in macOS 26.7 RC, shows a man holding up a
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Lexar has quietly launched a solid state drive (SSD) line for consumers that promises "Gen 5 speed for all," suggesting that its new Thor Ultra series will be priced more affordably than competing models. There is somewhat of a catch, though—these drives ditch the dedicated DRAM cache,
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Starting today, AI chats in Firefox’s Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership with Exa. Smart Window can also now automatically suggest tab groups and show visual previews of pages you previously visited when you
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OS PLatforms Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory Microsoft's making some major changes to File Explorer and the context menu in order to resolve quality issues and offer more user flexibility when you right click. "Windows" and "quality" are rarely used positively
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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A main theme of the nine-book sci-fi series The Expanse is that sometimes you may never know the consequences of a choice you made. The universe, utterly indifferent black box that it is, “never tells us if we did right or wrong,” as the character Naomi Nagata puts it in
