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Meta's new holograms make Star Wars tech look old school
Ever since I was a kid, I hoped that I'd live to see the day when we have proper holograms as I saw in Star Wars. Of course, I hoped that real-life holograms would be a little higher quality than the fuzzy, often broken-up counterparts in the sci-fi series, and it looks like I'm mostly getting my wish thanks to Meta. At Meta Connect 2026, the company debuted a new type of digital avatar…
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Actualité : Bon plan – L’aspirateur balai Samsung Jet 85 Pet VS20C85G2TW à 299,99 € (-42%)
Samsung continue de déployer son escadrille de Jet avec le Jet 85 Pet VS20C85G2TW, un aspirateur-balai à aspiration multicyclonique qui perd sa station de vidange et de recharge automatique. Une manière de le proposer à un tarif plus abordable. Le Jet 85 Pet VS20C85G2TW s'inscrit dans la droite lignée de la gamme d'aspirateurs-balais de Samsung, brillant par certains aspects, agaçant sur d'autres. On tique donc devant ce bac toujours aussi pénible à vider, l'absence…
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Actualité : French Week Amazon – Le clavier Corsair K100 Air Wireless "5 étoiles" à 199,99 € (-18%)
Le Corsair K100 Air Wireless sort des sentiers battus du gaming. Ce clavier sans-fil élégant et très fin est équipé de switches mécaniques ultra-low profile. Le K100 Air est un excellent clavier mécanique. Il saura contenter les joueurs qui veulent également faire de la bureautique sans afficher un modèle trop gaming sur leur bureau. Avec son design sobre, fin et solide, et ses nombreuses fonctionnalités, il se présente comme une bonne alternative au G915…
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Actualité : French Week Amazon – Le hub USB-C Razer USB 4 Dock Black "5 étoiles" à 159,99 € (-26%)
L'USB 4 Dock de Razer est, comme son nom l'indique, une station d'accueil permettant d'étendre la connectique d'un ordinateur muni d'un port USB4. Tout y est : HDMI, DisplayPort, lecteur de carte UHS-II, ports USB plein format et même une prise casque/micro. L’USB 4 Dock de Razer est une station d’accueil sans peur et sans véritable reproche. L’ensemble des promesses de débits et normes supportés est tenu et la finition du dock est exemplaire.…
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Actualité : Bon plan – Le casque vélo Bontrager Starvos Wavecel Noir à 50,98 € (-18%)
Le casque Bontrager Starvos est doté de la technologie WaveCel pour absorber les chocs. Ce modèle léger orienté "route" peut tout à fait trouver sa place dans l'équipement du "vélotafeur". Bien conçu, léger et aéré, le casque vélo Bontrager Starvos WaveCel brille également par ses bons résultats en matière de protection. Avant tout pensé pour la route, son format compact le rend tout à fait recommandable également dans un usage quotidien pour se rendre…
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Apps & Logiciels
Pixelated 118: Googlebook begins
Welcome to Pixelated episode 118. This week, Damien and Abner share their hands-on impressions of Google’s new laptop lineup with Will. What’s it like to use an Android-powered laptop? How different is the Googlebook platform from ChromeOS? And what steps does Google need to take post-launch to give it as strong of a chance at succeeding as possible? All those questions and more and more as the Android ecosystem grows even larger. Enjoy the…
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U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution to victims. One of several selfies from the Facebook page of Cameron Wagenius. Cameron John Wagenius, 22, was stationed at a U.S. Army base in South Korea when…
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Wearable
Google Health 5.09 arrives with more than just your new Pixel Watch features
TL;DR Google Health 5.09 is rolling out now for both iOS and Android. The update delivers the new Pixel Watch Health Guardian features already announced yesterday. We also get a few updates related to activity logging and custom food items. With Friday quickly coming to a close, what’s your weekend looking like? Will you be camped out on the couch, catching up on some all-important reality TV? Or will you be out and about,…
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Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
A US appeals court today approved the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic technology. Judges decided the US had authority to blacklist Anthropic for withholding certain AI features even if Anthropic had no malicious intent. In a 2-1 ruling issued by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a panel of judges said the "case raises profoundly difficult questions about the appropriate military uses of an almost unimaginably powerful new technology."…
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Google Calendar now shows three time zones at once
What you need to know Google Calendar now supports three time zones on the web. Three zones appear side by side in Day, Week, and Custom multi-day views. The rollout started September 25, covering Workspace, Workspace Individual, and personal Google accounts. Google Calendar is making life a little easier for anyone who routinely schedules meetings across borders. Now the web version can show up to three time zones at once, so global teams can…
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Smartphones
You told us your favorite Pixel 11 Pro alternative, and it’s not another Pixel
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. The Pixel 11 Pro is objectively a very good phone, but at a cool $1,100, it’s hardly a no-brainer in the current market. Indeed, it has plenty of competition. Some of that comes from the usual Android rivals, while Google itself offers a couple of compelling alternatives if you don’t need the latest Pro model. We recently picked out five phones that…
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Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Tesla’s pivot from making electric cars to humanoid robots is facing challenges because of complex robot hands and disgruntled employees pushing back against training their robotic replacements. The struggle to scale up production comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bet the company’s future on AI and robotics. As someone who frequently makes claims that fail to materialize, Musk has described the Optimus humanoid robot as potentially “the biggest product ever” during Tesla’s second-quarter…
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Searching for Googlebooks won’t give you the results you’re looking for
Credit: Richard Priday / Android Authority TL;DR A new category of laptops, called Googlebooks, was recently launched. The laptops share a very similar name to the company’s index of actual books. When searching for these notebooks on the company’s search engine, the first page of results is for Google Books. This has been a big week for Google, as pre-orders for Googlebooks opened up on Monday. Googlebooks are a new category of laptops that…
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Apple faces class action over Apple Pay fees charged to card issuers
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White has certified a class-action lawsuit accusing Apple of charging payment card issuers inflated fees for Apple Pay transactions. Here are the details. As first spotted by AppleInsider, a federal judge has allowed an antitrust lawsuit over Apple Pay fees to proceed as a class action, meaning payment card issuers across the U.S. may now pursue their claims against Apple as a group. In a press release from Hagens…
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How to stop Meta training its AI models on your smart glasses' visual data
The setting affects whether workers can review photos and videos from your glasses. Meta has started to roll out the setting that allows people who use its smart glasses to opt out of allowing the company to use "visual data" collected by the device for AI training. The setting is now available within the Meta AI app. The company has begun notifying glasses owners about the change with a pop-up in the Meta AI…
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Meta opens early access program for new Muse features
After announcing a host of new features for Meta’s Muse AI app at its Connect 2026 developer conference this week, the company is opening up requests for early access. Meta shared on Friday that you can now ask Muse to put you on the list to try out its latest capabilities before anyone else. Meta posted a link to a prompt on X that, when shared with Muse, will log that you’re interested in…
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The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?
Parents have spent years trying to keep their kids off social media, so some kids headed to the one place no adult would think to look for them: NPR. On this week’s “This American Life,” host Ira Glass tells the story of the team behind NPR’s podcast “Wild Card,” who noticed a flood of baffling comments under their Spotify episodes last fall. A producer assumed the bizarre abbreviations and indecipherable emojis were bot traffic…
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Livres
2032 : quand la technologie devient un miroir de nos choix
Dans un futur proche, la technologie ne se limite plus à des outils, mais devient un reflet de nos libertés. 2032, roman d’anticipation, explore cette transformation. À travers des scènes de tension et de résistance, il interroge l’usage de l’IA et des systèmes numériques dans nos vies. Ce texte vous invite à suivre ce récit, à comprendre ses enjeux et à réfléchir sur notre propre écosystème technologique. Un monde gouverné par des normes invisibles…
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New Mexico jury rules Meta misled state residents about data privacy
The company is still paying for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. A New Mexico jury has found Meta violated the state's Unfair Practices Act and misled residents about their privacy and how the company handles misinformation, Reuters reports. The trial was the result of a 2021 lawsuit filed by the state in response to Meta's Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data harvested from Facebook was used to target political advertising during the 2016 election. The…
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Google Health 5.09 rolling out: Cardio Load from third-party workouts, more
Following yesterday’s announcement, Google Health 5.09 is rolling out with support for the new Health Guardian features on the Pixel Watch. With version 5.09 for Android, Pixel Watch 3, 4, and 5 users can set up blood pressure trends, insulin resistance trends, and sleep breathing quality metrics. The first monthly Health Guardian summary will appear at the beginning of October, while you can also find information in the Health tab afterwards: There are also…
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Apple Music Hall confirms first eight shows, starting with Elton John
Apple today revealed the first eight shows coming to its new Apple Music Hall in London, with Elton John set to kick things off next week. Here are the details. Earlier this week, Apple unveiled the Apple Music Hall, a new concert venue in the famous Battersea Power Station in London, where the company also has an office and a store. Apple Music Hall will hold up to 600 people, with performances also livestreamed…
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9to5Mac Overtime 083: iPod Shuffle vibes
The Overtime team discusses Apple’s rumored screenless fitness tracker and explores why it’s so compelling. Fernando also shares his hands-on experience with the iPhone 18 Pro, the new Apple Watch Series 12, and the Apple Watch Ultra 4. Plus, they cover some disappointing news regarding aftermarket SSD upgrades for the M6 Mac mini. 9to5Mac Overtime is a weekly video-first podcast exploring fun and interesting observations in the Apple ecosystem, featuring 9to5Mac’s Fernando Silva &…
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YouTube keep freezing on your Galaxy phone? It’s not just you
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Even the most expensive devices are subject to bugs. Case in point: a number of users of the $2,100 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra have reported that the YouTube app isn’t working correctly on their phones. A post on the Korean-language Samsung community forum has been racking up comments from users of the Z Fold 8 Ultra and other Galaxy phones…
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Actualité : La chaleur s’arrête brutalement : la tempête Austen frappera la France avec des pluies torrentielles dans ces départements
Dans une partie du pays, on s'attend donc à ce que la tempête Austen provoque de fortes pluies, des orages, du vent et de la houle. En revanche, c'est encore incertain pour le sud-est, mais plusieurs zones sont déjà sous surveillance. C'est à partir du samedi 26 septembre que les nuages gagneront l'ouest de la France, mais la chaleur sera toujours bien installée. Puis le lendemain, le dimanche 27 septembre, une première perturbation apportera…
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