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The Samsung T5 Evo 4TB portable SSD is back in stock and $95 off

Right now when you buy directly from Samsung, you can save $95 on the popular T5 Evo portable SSD.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)

Article URL: https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054775 Points: 71 # Comments: 3

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Wyden: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon werenโ€™t notifying senators of surveillance requests

Sen. Ron Wyden said in a letter that one U.S. phone carrier turned over Senate data to law enforcement without notifying the target.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Amazon Is Suddenly Giving Refunds Dating Back to 2018: Here's Why

An internal review at Amazon has created a wave of refunds for orders customers made years ago -- some are getting more than $1,000 back.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

OpenAI taps iPhone designer Jony Ive to develop AI devices

OpenAI announced an acquisition of former Apple designer Jony Ive's startup to develop AI hardware.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Israeli troops fire โ€˜warning shotsโ€™ at 25 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank

Shots force delegation representing 31 countries, including Italy, Canada, Egypt and UK, to run for coverIsraeli troops have fired โ€œwarning shotsโ€ towards a group of 25 diplomats who were visiting Jenin in the Israel-occupied West Bank on an official mission organised by the Palestinian Authority to observe the humanitarian situation there.The Israeli military said the visit had been approved but the delegation โ€œ...

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

Get Safe: PetSafe and SimpliSafe Offer Pet and Home Memorial Day Sales

Save up to 60% on home security systems and get instant discounts when purchasing certain pet products.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system

Article URL: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25K47.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054620 Points: 93 # Comments: 56

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Samsung Reportedly Wants OLED Screens on Switch 2 Refresh

One of the major complaints about the Switch 2 might be addressed in the future.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

Googleโ€™s Android Chief Hopes Its โ€˜New Eraโ€™ Will Get People to Ditch Their iPhones

Android is getting a design refresh, launching a mixed reality platform for smart glasses, and Gemini is expanding to cars and watches. Can it entice the overwhelmingly dominant iPhone-owning youth?

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Wired favicon Wired

The Bear season 4 gets a trailer, and one detail suggests it could be the Hulu show's final installment

The Bear season 4 trailer is as stressful as ever, and it could it spell the end for the hit Hulu series?

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

This Motorola Razr deal at Best Buy is flipping awesome - here's how to take advantage

Motorola's newly-released 2025 Razr series is available now, and Best Buy will give you a free $139 Clicks keyboard when you purchase any new model.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

How to watch the Europa League online for free

Live stream the 2024-25 Europa League for free from anywhere in the world.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Phone satisfaction falls to 10-year low - and AI is only partly to blame

According to a recent survey, missed AI promises are leaving phone customers less satisfied. However, other reasons were also cited.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Grab the HP Victus 15L gaming desktop for just $600 ahead of Memorial Day

Right now at HP, you can pick up the Victus 15L gaming desktop with a 12th gen Intel Core i5 CPU and Intel Arc A380 GPU for just $600 -- that's 41% off.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Best WordPress Hosting for Easy Website Creation in 2025

We compared prices, features, performance and support of the top WordPress hosting services to help you make the right decision for your website.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

This Eufy robot vacuum's dustbin doubles as a cordless vac and it's $200 off

Eufy features the cheapest robot vacuum combination this year, with a handheld unit built into the robot's body instead of the dock.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Buy a 49-inch Samsung Odyssey G9 on sale and get a second screen free

Looking to upgrade your gaming or work PC setup? Samsung is selling the 49-inch Odyssey G9 for just $800, including a 27-inch Odyssey G55C for free.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Google releases its asynchronous Jules AI agent for coding - how to try it for free

Jules is now available worldwide in public beta.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Xbox Game Pass Retro Classics has over 50 old-school games for people over 50

Game Pass members can now play over 50 old-school games for free. Microsoft's Retro Classics is a library of old-school Activision and Blizzard games from the '80s and '90s, like Pitfall! and MechWarrior 2. You can play on Xbox consoles, PCs and supported cloud gaming devices. Like Nintendo's Switch Online classics, the Game Pass version includes save states. That should come in handy for some of the excruciatingly...

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Keep 10TB of files private for life for A$437 with Internxt Cloud Storage

Enjoy serious data security at an affordable price with a lifetime subscription to the Internxt Cloud Storage 10TB plan for A$437 with code STORAGE20 through 1 June.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

A judge forced Fortnite to return to iOS, with an assist from Microsoft and Spotify

After five long years, Americans can play 'Fortnite' on their iPhones again, but Epic didn't do it by itself.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Spotifyโ€™s new โ€˜Upcoming Releasesโ€™ hub highlights future albums you may like

Spotify is launching a new hub dedicated to keeping users informed about soon-to-be-released albums, the company announced on Wednesday. The hub, called โ€œUpcoming Releases,โ€ will feature personalized recommendations based on a userโ€™s listening history. Users will be able to access it through the Search tab on mobile in the โ€œBrowse allโ€ section. The hub will [โ€ฆ]

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Incredible shrinking clownfish beats the heat

Shrinking down to size boosted clownfish survival rates up to 78 percent during heat waves.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

A Gaming YouTuber Says an AI-Generated Clone of His Voice Is Being Used to Narrate 'Doom' Videos

Mark Brown, who posts game explainers to his Game Makerโ€™s Toolkit channel, says his persona has been plagiarized.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Wired favicon Wired

Finland โ€˜preparing for the worstโ€™ as Russia expands military presence near border

Head of strategy of Finnish defence forces says they are monitoring Moscowโ€™s manoeuvring โ€˜very closelyโ€™Finland has said it expects Russia to further build up troops along their shared border when the war in Ukraine ends, after reports that Moscow had strengthened its military bases near the Nato frontier.Maj Gen Sami Nurmi, the head of strategy of the Finnish defence forces, said the military is following Moscowโ€™s...

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

You can now auto-change compromised passwords with Chrome's Credential Manager

Chrome's password manager is getting new bells and whistles including an option to quickly change compromised passwords.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Jony Ive to lead OpenAIโ€™s design work following $6.5B acquisition of his company

OpenAI is acquiring io, the device startup that CEO Sam Altman and famed Apple designer Jony Ive have quietly been working on for two years, in an all-equity deal that values that startup at $6.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. As part of the unusual deal announced Wednesday, Ive and his design firm, [โ€ฆ]

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Groovz wireless earbuds and headphones on sale โ€” huge savings up for grabs!

Groovz is offering a 40% discount on top of the lowered prices for its wireless earbuds and headphones, but you're going to have to hurry if you don't want to miss out on the savings.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054185 Points: 79 # Comments: 41

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Forget Ticketmaster: The All-American Rejects are playing your backyard

With their "House Party" tour, the All-American Rejects are ditching big venues (and big fees) in favor of intimate, often free showsโ€”and fans are loving it.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Mario Kart World was initially planned for the original Switch

The upcoming Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World was originally intended for the OG Switch console, according to an interview with the game's developers. This was the goal until the dev team realized that the console couldn't handle it. "It was difficult for us to incorporate everything we wanted, so we were always conscious of what we were giving up in return,โ€ said programming director Kenta Sato. A big sticking...

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Judge rules White House violated order by deporting migrants to South Sudan

Eight people apparently deported as their lawyers say they are at โ€˜risk of harmโ€™ and that there is โ€˜no clarityโ€™A federal judge has ruled the US governmentโ€™s attempt to deport migrants to South Sudan โ€œunquestionablyโ€ violated an earlier court order.Brian E Murphy, the US district judge in Massachusetts, made the remark at an emergency hearing he had ordered in Boston following the Trump administrationโ€™s apparent removal...

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

OpenAI buys Jony Ive's design startup for $6.5 billion

OpenAI is buying Jony Ive's startup, io, for $6.5 billion, as first reported by The New York Times. The company confirmed the news in a blog post on its website headlined by the photo you see above, which is apparently real and not AI generated. As part of the deal, Ive and his design studio, LoveFrom, will continue to work independently of OpenAI. However, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan, who co-founded io...

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

3D X-DRAM technology will bring bigger, faster memory by 2026, but there's no way these 512GB modules will sell to consumers

Stacked memory up to 512GB sounds revolutionary, but NEOโ€™s bold claims face skepticism amid stagnant DRAM prices and limited benefits for everyday users.

Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar