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Samsung to Debut First Smart Glasses at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22

Road to VR·May 17, 2026·5 min read

Developed in partnership with Gentle Monster, Samsung's entry marks the next major battleground in consumer wearables against Meta and Apple's upcoming devices.

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May 17, 2026

Fujifilm's X Half Is Even More Whimsical with a $300 Price Cut

The Verge·4 min read

Fujifilm's quirky half-frame digital camera gets a substantial price reduction, making one of the most interesting cameras of 2026 even more accessible.

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May 16, 2026

Users Turn to Jailbreaking Their Older Kindles as Amazon Ends Support

TechCrunch·5 min read

As Amazon sunsets software support for older Kindle models, a growing community of readers is jailbreaking their devices to keep them functional and free of Amazon's ecosystem.

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May 17, 2026

Revamped Siri Will Reportedly Offer Auto-Deleting Chats

The Verge·5 min read

Apple's next Siri overhaul in iOS 27 will include self-destructing message threads, bringing ephemeral messaging to the built-in assistant for the first time.

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May 14, 2026

How to Turn Off Instagram's New Instants Feature

TechCrunch·4 min read

Instagram's new 'Instants' feature auto-shares photos you take, sparking privacy concerns. Here's how to disable it and retract photos you accidentally shared.

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May 15, 2026

The Chinese App That Puts Instagram to Shame

Wired·8 min read
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2026-05-15

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

tencentshill·6 min read
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2026-05-17

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

datadrivenangel·4 min read
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2026-05-18

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

nothrowaways·5 min read
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2026-05-16

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

_____k·5 min read
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2026-04-28

Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles

Bender·6 min read
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2026-05-01

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

johnbarron·6 min read
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2026-05-06

RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both

cainxinth·6 min read
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2026-04-18

Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

pjmlp·5 min read
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2026-05-02

Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

0in·5 min read
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2026-04-19

Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location

thunderbong·6 min read
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2026-04-15

Google shoehorned Rust into Pixel 10 modem to make legacy code safer

snackoverflow·6 min read
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2026-05-15

Google tests 5 GB cap for users who skip phone numbers

jnord·6 min read
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2026-04-20

Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time

rbanffy·6 min read
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2026-05-13

Old film camera can now shoot 4K video, 26MP RAW files without any modifications

teleforce·6 min read
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2026-04-15

Sony killing features for antenna, set-top box users of Bravia smart TVs in May

canucker2016·6 min read
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2026-05-16

Show HN: Infinite Swap – Trade a bottle cap up to a house

dansquizsoft·6 min read
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2026-05-15

Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

droidjj·6 min read
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2026-05-05

"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original

cwal37·6 min read
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2026-04-15

Major News Sites Have Blocked the Wayback Machine – Digital History in Danger

gurjeet·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt Fails to Read Room on AI, Gets Booed into Oblivion

imichael·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Show HN: How to Kill the Dead Internet

bigger_fish·5 min read
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2026-05-15

Google explains why some new Gmail accounts only get 5GB storage

sumanep·6 min read
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2026-05-15

"The Prompting Company, Inc., All Rights Reserved"

enjoyyourlife·5 min read
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2026-05-12

We're still talking about the Trump phone

Topfi·5 min read
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2026-05-01

Beijing bans drone sales even as rest of world buys Chinese drones

Mindless2112·6 min read
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2026-04-20

Lawsuits, licensing, and royalties are complicating 4K video support in gadgets

zinekeller·6 min read
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2026-05-16

Show HN: Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs

ktmartin·8 min read
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2026-05-17

Court grants Musk's bid to add Craig Federighi to Apple/OpenAI lawsuit

hdjY28·6 min read
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2026-05-15

Worried About AI? Here, Have Some AI

speckx·5 min read
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2026-05-13

Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and coming this year

rbanffy·5 min read
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2026-04-14

Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking starting in June

ZeidJ·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Surprise AI bills leave AWS and Google Cloud users aghast

medalblue·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

Bender·6 min read
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2026-05-17

Compared a few OpenClaw hosting setups

VishnuTech·4 min read
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2026-05-16

Google sued for firing staff who tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto (2021)

gurjeet·6 min read
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2026-05-15

Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to 'manipulate' AI

droidjj·6 min read
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2026-05-15

Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

andrewstetsenko·4 min read
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2026-05-01

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

taubek·5 min read
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2026-04-23

Framework Announces Laptop 13 Pro, 'The MacBook Pro for Linux Users'

ravenical·6 min read
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2026-04-16

New undersea cable cutter risks Internet's backbone

pseudolus·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Qwen 3.7 appears in Qwen Chat website

theanonymousone·5 min read
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2026-05-16

Voice parsing using AI for calender app

suvirb·5 min read
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2026-05-18

PromptStash – A "/" command palette for AI prompts that works everywhere

jescabvig·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Replacing Google Analytics with Matomo on a Pi in a Cupboard

alance·6 min read
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2026-05-17

Searching "remove definition" on Google results in pointless AI text

tech234a·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)

brudgers·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search

tjek·5 min read
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2026-05-15

Which (De-Googled) OS(s) are you using on mobile?

Cider9986·5 min read
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2026-05-15

Google's Gemini Omni video model surfaces ahead of I/O debut

gmays·5 min read
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2026-05-16

$2B Conflict: Sam Altman "Side Hustles" Are Now Center of a Legal Warzone

g42gregory·6 min read
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2026-05-11

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

luckys·6 min read
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2026-04-27

OpenAI's Revolutionary AI Gadget Is a Phone?

dlx·5 min read
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2026-04-21

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition: Tons of cache for tons of dollars

LorenDB·6 min read
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2026-04-15

For the first time ever, Amazon is cutting old Kindles off from the Kindle Store

ilamont·6 min read
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2026-05-18

The Applicability of Spaced Repetition

ibobev·4 min read
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2026-05-18

Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)

bschne·4 min read
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2026-05-18

Apple's treatment of AI coding apps could be shifting with Replit update

vickychijwani·6 min read
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2026-05-18

A Self-Hosting Point-and-Click Editor for Any GUI-DB Application [pdf]

mwhite·5 min read
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2026-05-17

I did everything but my app doesn't attract anyone

ooozooo·5 min read
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2026-05-17

SixForty – photo sharing for the Apple II

wanderingjew·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Show HN: Snatch Guard – iOS theft detection with accelerometer and Screen Time

olegmmv·6 min read
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2026-05-17

Kaiden: Workstation AI Sandbox Desktop Application

illusive4080·4 min read
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2026-05-17

RainbowApple: 1977 Apple logo in the macOS menu bar

jonathan_hollin·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Show HN: Chrome extension that hides YouTube shorts and other distractions

mikax·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Dot-Coms That Deliver (2001)

Apocryphon·4 min read
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2026-05-17

Show HN: AutoAlert – Android app that announces UPI payments

anithakarri001·5 min read
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2026-05-16

Faker or Karina? Google Play's new video series serves gamers' ultimate fantasy

ksec·6 min read
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2026-05-15

Google Analytics 4 Is Lying to You About AI Traffic

DillyDally125·5 min read
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2026-05-16

The offline desk gadget that got me to sit up straight

jnord·6 min read
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2026-05-04

Apple Patents Brain-Reading Earbuds for Neural Monitoring (2025)

wslh·5 min read
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2026-05-03

With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens open legacy

abdelhousni·5 min read
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2026-05-01

Apple may take "several months" to catch up to Mac mini and Studio demand

stalfosknight·6 min read
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2026-04-25

M5Stack CardputerZero Powered by Raspberry Pi CM0 Launching on Kickstarter Soon

Lwrless·6 min read
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2026-04-24

Why are the Mac mini and Mac Studio gradually becoming impossible to buy?

rbanffy·6 min read
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2026-04-14

A sleek, wearable airbag for cyclists is nearly here

JeanKage·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Show HN: Gambling/math/typing for screen time (iOS)

yaseenhalabi·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Apple Design Awards – 2026 Finalists

gdubs·4 min read
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2026-05-18

Generations of AI applications: conversational, delegative, and collaborative

zknill·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Show HN: I made a pulsing conductor's baton

bertwagner·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Screen record more – Applied Cartography

rhazn·4 min read
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2026-05-18

Show HN: Thuki – local Al overlay for macOS (double-tap Control, no API key)

logan_ng·6 min read
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2026-05-17

Show HN: A freehand drawing guestbook for my portfolio

leoverdura·5 min read
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2026-05-16

Show HN: Pockli – I needed a better iOS scanning app

tsoswr·6 min read
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2026-05-18

Harmony Infra Ventures Reflects the Leadership of Harmandeep Singh Kandhari

KirtiKKapoor·5 min read
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2026-05-18

TechForges – Zero-Infra Software via Flux AI and Vibe-Mesh

SharavFounder·5 min read
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2026-05-18

Show HN: Dashbuster – Replace em dashes on any website

qainsights·5 min read
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2026-05-17

Express Interest in Our Geospatial Analytics Products – Google Maps Platform

Anon84·6 min read
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2026-05-17

ConnectAI – LinkedIn DM Generator

sujalmeena·4 min read
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2026-05-16

ClickBook – Offline Android eReader with local LLM inference via llama.rn

elcooo·6 min read
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2026-05-05

Humane AI Pin hacks turns the gadget into a standalone Android-powered gadget

speckx·6 min read
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2026-04-24

Six things I'll remember when I think about Tim Cook's version of Apple

01-_-·6 min read
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2026-04-23

Malware via monitor cables a matter of national security? The gadget for you

noja·6 min read
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2026-04-21

Heatwaves in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: Why Local Conditions Matter

akbarnama·5 min read
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2026-04-17

€5 gadget tracks down Dutch Navy's stealth warship while on mission

repelsteeltje·6 min read
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2026-04-09

Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds

josephcsible·5 min read
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