conv.tech

“There were sellers buying the smallest RAM units, changing the RAM chips, and then reselling them as the higher RAM SKUs.”— Aurornis, HN commenter · Hacker News · full quotes →

“Weighing in at a mere 2.18 pounds (0.99 kg) and measuring just 0.43 inches at its thinnest point, ASUS did not sacrifice build rigidity or raw specifications…”— Chrome Unboxed · full quotes →

“W3C's Amaya browser was as much an editor as it was a browser. Production and consumption were supposed to be symmetrical. This was the promise of the web.”— weinzierl · full quotes →

“the cheapest models available in Australia will cost significantly more”— Google · full quotes →

“Amazon predictably blocked Muse, but there is room for a deal based on the reality that Amazon's physical world investments are an AI moat.”— Ben Thompson, Technology analyst, Stratechery · Stratechery · full quotes →

“Googlebook OS is built on the Android technology stack but incorporates "desktop foundations" from ChromeOS, giving it a conventional windowing environment, a…”— Google · Press · full quotes →

“Absolutely something we did at Twitter, but we extended this to any kind of "power dynamic". Gender, yes, but also race, seniority, etc.”— petrillic · full quotes →

“With these laws, we are ensuring that Californians remain in the driver's seat — and that those profiting from data centers aren't doing so at our expense.”— Governor Gavin Newsom, California Governor · Press · full quotes →

“This marks the first time that Siri has been pre-installed as a standalone app for iPhone users.”— 9to5Mac · full quotes →

“digital euro made available for banks”— André Dragosch, Bitwise Europe Head of Research · full quotes →

“Turing opens up a new golden age of gaming, with realism only possible with ray tracing, which most people thought was still a decade away.”— Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO · full quotes →

“Petal will connect the US and France, spanning 7,000 km (over 4,300 miles) and doubling the capacity of today's most advanced transoceanic cables.”— Meta · Hacker News · full quotes →

“no managers, no shareholders, and everything we build left where anyone can use it”— Igalia · full quotes →

“The biggest user-facing new feature included in macOS 27.2 Golden Gate beta 1 is Siri AI's support for five additional languages, after its English-only…”— 9to5Mac · full quotes →

“A PDP-11 serving adverts for an AI-written site in 2026 was not on my bingo card. Imagine being brought back from the dead for that.”— dwedge · full quotes →

“will curve into the sides of the devices, with a metal band in the middle”— Mark Gurman, Bloomberg reporter · full quotes →

“Could this be one line with padStart() ? Yes. Does it need a model call? No. Anyway:”— fka, jev-leftpad developer · Hacker News · full quotes →

“Or just don't use CSS to change colors and use the browser's defaults :) (That gives you different colors for visited links.)”— koala · full quotes →

“Camera glasses announce themselves over Bluetooth. ZuckOff listens for that and tells you when Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles or similar hardware…”— ZuckOff · full quotes →

“This technology has the potential to make transactions faster and more efficient by bundling multiple steps of an asset's lifecycle... and enabling automation.”— European Central Bank · full quotes →

“Controlling the flow of traffic through an intersection, otherwise known as assigning right-of-way is an enormous challenge and almost always requires a…”— Practical Engineering, article author · practical.engineering blog · full quotes →

“PMSG has turned a difficult public-interest problem into an open convention the industry can test, challenge and improve.”— NearLens · full quotes →

“Microsoft warned that the built-in File History backup feature in Windows may stop working on some systems after installing the September 2026 security updates.”— Microsoft · Bleeping Computer · full quotes →

“Nscale's 1,000-fold increase in contacts over the last three years is mainly due to two clients thirsty for artificial intelligence computing capacity…”— Bloomberg · Bloomberg Tech · full quotes →

“One of the Googlebook's most compelling features is its ability to serve as an extension of your Android smartphone by natively running all Google Play Store…”— ZDNET · full quotes →

“I disabled Siri in the Settings app, and then further disabled Siri and its extensions in Settings > Screen Time. Next, I disabled all Siri-related and Apple…”— semidror, macOS 27 user · Hacker News · full quotes →

“Our first step is to focus on the Android community, as there isn't a laptop platform that was built to work seamlessly with Android phones.”— John Maletis, Google head of laptops and tablets · Press · full quotes →

“S3 storage is the killer addition here for me.”— totetsu, HN commenter · Hacker News · full quotes →

“In places like London, iPhones have become particularly attractive targets for thieves, with some criminals going so far as to reject Android devices in favor…”— AppleInsider · full quotes →

“The new Acer Googlebook 14 puts intuitive and powerful tools with Gemini Intelligence at the fingertips of anyone wanting to boost their creativity and…”— James Lin, General Manager of Notebooks at Acer · Press · full quotes →

“playful animations”— Google, Manufacturer/platform owner · Press · full quotes →

“If one blade sticks or breaks, a repair will probably require replacing the complete main-camera assembly rather than fixing the aperture.”— iFixit · full quotes →

“So far, in September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches.”— @LundukeJournal · full quotes →