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1. Now, I've got an X-ray scheduled for next Tuesday along with the doctor's appt. They went ahead and scheduled it for me. Nice of them. Means getting there earlier - but that's okay. Hopefully, it's nothing but a sciatic nerve and arthritis. Friday, Monday, and Tuesday are doctors visits - oh well at least they are all in the same location. I wish it was closer to the subway stations, but it could be worse. Ten blocks isn't that bad. (Ten-Fifteen minute walk, with sciatica and a bad knee - it may actually be a twenty minute walk, I should give myself more time to get there.). I could take a car service - but I've neither the patience or the funds for it. Also they stress me out.

I'm collecting doctors again. Appear to have slight hoarseness tonight - thinking allergies? Also, hoping I've managed to avoid digestive issues by having tuna fish on gluten free sourdough deli toast, with small salad, cucumber, celery and carrot sticks. Did have a greek yogurt bar and chocolate for desert.

2. I really wish the fund-raising charity folks would stop sending me stuff? the stuff I've acquired from fund-raising folks ) (I figure if I put this out there into the Universe, they will?)

3. FB neighborhood page shot out a link regarding those pesky proposals on the ballot, which I shared with my brother. [Those ballot proposals took my cubicle mate by surprise, along with a bunch of others.] Now, we know how we're voting on those vague as mud ballot proposals. (Yes, I'm voting - it's a major election for NYC City - because of the mayoral race. The race is between Cuomo, Sliwa, and Zohran Mamadani. After losing the Democratic primary, Cuomo is running as an Independent, and Sliwa is running as a Republican (he was the only candidate running for Republican). The conservative newspapers are trying to get him to pull out - which of course he won't.
Oh, the drama.

4. Lots of torrential rain fall today. (Outside of Super being unable to turn off bedroom radiator today - I wasn't affected.) So, southeastern Brooklyn had flooding in various spots. They posted a ton of photos on FB of the various spots that had been flooded around Ditmas and Flatbush in Brooklyn. Kesington for the most part was fine - when I got home - mainly because they had fixed the gutters.

Flooding in NYC, West Chester, Long Island, and New Jersey

Flooding in BedStuy

Bedstuy Brooklyn Flooding

Post on Ditmas Neighborhood Page: "Cortelyou Road is flooded. If your car is parked near Tribeca Pediatrics you should move your car. The water is rising and is almost to the top a sedan's tires.

Never mind. Someone just cleared the drain. It's all good."

It really is just a gutter problem.

ME: Are we still on for the radiator valve switch off?
Super: We had flooding in 3 building basements.
Me: Okay, not today then. Maybe next week?
Super: Okay, thanks.

I hope the basement apartment is okay. Although, honestly, you'd have to be desperate or nuts to live in a basement apartment in NYC.

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Eh, I'll catch up on memage tomorrow.

Have a photo instead.

Jenn's been playing Cult of the Lamb

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and omg those cultists are so needy. They can't feed themselves, so you're constantly trying to keep them in berries and fish, and they complain about everything!

"There's no place to poop, build an outhouse!" (You're an animal, poop on the ground!)

"I want to eat a poop sandwich!" (Uh, okay, but why do I have to make it!?)

"Oh, that grass gruel made me sick!" (Get back to work!)

"I'm sick of your lies!" (Welp, time to perform another human sapient sacrifice of a, uh, willing victim!)

Seriously, who's running this cult, you or them?

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I supplied knives and fine motor control; the toddler supplied art direction; the toddler's resident adults supplied outlines for me to cut around (and candles, and matches, and in fact all of the cutting of the tiny pumpkin).

one large and one small pumpkin, carved, with candles, in the dark

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Posted by Michelle Ehrhardt

If you're getting more scam texts than your friends and family, it turns out it might be your mobile platform, at least going by a recent poll from Google and YouGov. According to Google, users on Android report receiving 58% fewer scam texts than those on iOS, and that number is even better on Pixel devices.

Android Survey
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That data comes from a survey Google and YouGov conducted of over 5,000 Android and iOS users across the U.S., India, and Brazil. The data says that Android users as a whole were "58% more likely than iOS users" to report that they had not received any scam texts in the week prior to the survey, and that iOS users were 65% more likely than Android users to report getting three or more scam texts in a week. On the whole, it also says that Android users were 20% more likely to describe their device's scam protection features as "very effective" or "extremely effective."

As for Pixel vs. iPhone specifically, the survey also found that Pixel users were 96% more likely to report zero scam texts than iPhone users, and that iPhone users were 136% more likely to say they had received "a heavy volume of scam messages" than Pixel users, as well as 150% more likely to say their device was "not effective at all in stopping mobile fraud."

Those numbers don't look good for Apple, although it's worth pointing out a few details before taking Google at its word.

What is YouGov?

First, to Google's credit, it didn't conduct this study alone. While the company didn't go into detail on how it partnered with YouGov here, YouGov itself is a respectable entity, widely cited in market research and even political news. The organization specializes in polls, and has been cited in everything from the New York Times to Lifehacker sister publication Mashable.

It's also worth pointing out that YouGov wasn't the only independent entity Google worked with while putting together its report. The company also reached out to Counterpoint Research to evaluate its AI-powered anti-scam protections, and Leviathan Security Group to asses scam protection across four Android phones. The company used these studies to put together infographics depicting its security features vs. iPhone's, which you can see below.

Counterpoint Research numbers regarding Google's AI-powered scam prevention.
Credit: Google
Leviathan Security Group research numbers regarding Google's scam prevention tech.
Credit: Google

Note, however, how Google has put together the information here. Specifically, it implies that iPhone does not offer any scam protections in emails, while ignoring that many iPhone users access their email through the same Gmail app as on Android. It also doesn't mention Safari's ability to block pop-ups or the iPhone's ability to screen phone calls, which makes me think Google might be getting choosy with how its presenting the data here. As such, it's worth looking at its survey results with a critical eye as well.

Questions about methodology

While Google's survey results are likely accurate to the polled audience, I do have a few questions about the methodology.

First, there's the issue with this being a survey, rather than a more dispassionate look at texting inboxes. While helpful for getting insight into how users perceive their devices, surveys are susceptible to the word of those surveyed, which means that can be swayed by respondents misremembering details or misunderstanding questions.

The bigger question to me, though, is sample size. While I commend Google for conducting its survey across three different regions, the company was not clear about how many of its respondents owned iPhones vs. Android devices. It's possible that iPhone users might have reported more scams simply because the iPhone is more popular in the U.S., for instance. To be fair, those numbers are reversed in India and Brazil, but without knowing a breakdown of how many people Google and YouGov interviewed where, it's hard to know if the data is being impacted by other factors.

For instance, in addition to potentially being more numerous depending on a breakdown of the surveyed population, iPhone users might also be more susceptible to scam texts simply because scammers might want to target that user base more, as was once the case with viruses on Windows. The iPhone is known as a luxury device, which implies its user base might have extra money to spend, making it an alluring target.

Can you believe Google's survey?

So, can you take Google's polling at its word? Yes and no.

With YouGov helping the company out, it's likely that the results presented are truthful, although they could still be misleading. The only way to know for sure would be to look at a detailed breakdown of the survey itself, but unlike the Counterpoint Research and Leviathan Security Group evaluations, there doesn't seem to be a way to look at the raw survey data at the moment, just Google's blog reporting on its findings.

I've reached out to Google and YouGov independently with questions about their methodology, and did not immediately hear back. For good measure, I've also reached out to Apple for its take, and similarly am still waiting for a reply.

In the meantime, I would take this survey with a grain of salt. It's almost certainly based in truth, but it's important to remember that it's still part of a larger advertising narrative.

Google has made a big deal as of late about calling Apple's ecosystem a walled garden. If the company can convince users that it can offer them greater freedom while also upping their protection, that would be a big win. It does, however, coincide with Android's own efforts to close itself off in the name of security, so maybe the truth is both platforms aren't so different after all.

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Posted by Jake Peterson

I am extremely concerned about the prevalence of AI content on our social media feeds. Now that just about anyone can generate hyper-realistic videos with a simple text prompt, I fear that disinformation will rise exponentially, distorting worldviews faster than algorithms have so far been able to do. So you can imagine how I feel about Meta's plans to add a "huge corpus" of AI content to its feeds. Good luck out there, everyone.

That's directly from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself. In a Meta Platforms, Inc. earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg confirmed the company's plans to add this self-described huge corpus of content, thanks to how easy AI makes it to create and "remix" content. People will create AI content, the platform's recommendation systems will deliver that content to people, who may then slightly alter that content and send it back into the Metaverse. As this feedback loop will continue, feeds will start filling up with more and more AI content. That's good for Meta, and anyone who enjoys watching videos that aren't real. For those of us a little sick of this content, or worried we won't be able to spot it during long scrolling session, it's only bad news.

While much (if not most) of that AI content is likely coming from outside sources, like OpenAI's Sora, some of it may come from Meta itself. The company recently rolled out "Vibes," its own short-form AI video generator, as part of the existing Meta AI app. Users can create videos directly in Vibes, or remix existing videos. I'd wager some Vibes content is going to cross your Meta feed in the near future, if it hasn't already.

Zuckerberg took the time to highlight how Meta's AI recommendation systems across all of its core products—Facebook, Instagram, and Threads—are delivering "higher quality and more relevant content" to users, especially with regards to video. Apparently, the amount of time we've spent watching Instagram reels has increased by more than 30% when compared to last year. (Fun fact: Reels brings in over $50 billion according to the earnings call.) That environment seems just right to foster a new wave of AI slop to Meta's enormous audience.

Look, I've definitely laughed at some AI memes that have come my way. But to suggest that flooding the feeds with realistic AI videos without any regulation or forethought is a good idea is itself laughable. If you use Meta products, watch out: You might not be able to trust what you're watching is actually real for much longer—if at all.

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Posted by Beth Skwarecki

I’ve been using Fitbit’s revamped app, currently in “public preview” mode for adult Android users in the United States. While I like the simplified aesthetic, its functionality seems to center around the questionable AI that gave me so many wrong and confusing answers. Let me take you on a tour of where the new app has improved, where it’s falling short, and what’s still missing. 

Better: cardio load and key metrics are easy to read

The top few metrics on the home screen have always been configurable, but I find the new version is even more readable than the old one. You get three “focus metrics” on the right hand side, and a big donut shape giving your progress toward your cardio load

Fitbit's current app on the left; the updated preview version is on the right.
Fitbit's current app is on the left; the updated preview version is on the right. Credit: Beth Skwarecki/Fitbit

Measuring cardio load as progress toward a weekly goal is a welcome change; previously, cardio load was a daily measure that often didn’t correspond to reality. There’s a downside to the new view, though: in the old version of the app, you could turn off the recommendations or hide them. In this version, there’s no way I could find to remove that metric from the top of your screen.

Better: separate tabs for fitness, sleep, and health

Screenshots of the Fitness, Sleep, and Health tabs
What you see on the Fitness, Sleep, and Health tabs. Credit: Beth Skwarecki/Fitbit

Finding any specific data in the old Fitbit app always meant scrolling through a CVS receipt-length list of things you weren’t looking for. Items tended to be grouped, which helped a little, but ultimately some things need more space than the little card they were stuffed into. You couldn’t find your recent workouts without guessing on which tile to tap—turns out it’s Exercise Days (but not Cardio Load or Active Zone Minutes).

But now, you just tap on the Fitness icon at the bottom, and there everything is! My exercise days and weekly cardio are there, then a listing of upcoming workouts, and then my recent activities. I can log a manual activity right from this screen. Perfect. (The button doesn’t seem to be working right now, but hey, it’s a beta. I can appreciate the idea.) 

Same goes for the Sleep tab. Right up top there’s a trend insight (“Your steps linked [sic] to better sleep quality”) and then I get my graph of sleep stages, and a list of “key metrics” like when I went to bed and how much time in bed was spent awake. 

The Health tab gives my vitals, like my resting heart rate and HRV. If I scroll down, I can set up alerts, update my profile, and the “coach notes” that the AI has written down about me. For example, I see “wants low reps and heavy weights” and “hates lunges.” 

Worse: glitches galore

I know it’s a beta, but things seem really rough. My workout from two days ago is listed as “upcoming,” and the app crashes when I try to mark it as completed. The old Fitbit app says that my high and low heart rate notifications are “on & checking” but the new app says I still need to set them up. 

Some of the AI conversations fail to load at all. When they do, often the bot tells me it doesn’t have access to the information I’m asking about, or it says that “internally” it sees something different than what I’m seeing in the main screens of the app. The team has a lot to fix before these features are ready for widespread use.

Worse: structured data views are replaced with AI conversations

Humans invented graphs, charts, and other means of data presentation because these are easy to scan and interpret at a glance. The new Fitbit app can generate some charts (great!) but tends to present these as little cards to illustrate insights from the AI bot. 

To see more data, you’d think you could tap on a button or card about a recent run to get your lap times, running dynamics, and other information. But that doesn’t seem to be an option. Instead, I get a “continue conversation” button that seems to want to feed a screenshot of the AI output back into the AI bot. 

I’ve already written about some of the problems I’ve had conversing with the AI bot, so I won’t rehash those issues here. (It hallucinates in ways that are sometimes hilarious and often frustrating.) But even if the AI was as intelligent as it’s supposed to be, this would still be a major issue. The AI responses are slow, and I can’t always get the bot to give a straight answer to my questions. 

In short, it seems like the app’s designers said “we’ll have the AI handle it” anytime they weren’t sure how to build a feature. So the app feels like a mere wrapper around the bot, and the bot is just not the right tool for all those jobs. 

Missing: nutrition, menstrual health, and more

Google says that it hasn’t ported all the Fitbit app’s features to the new preview. When I asked about these limitations by email, the response I got was that “As a preview, the service is not yet feature-complete and lacks several functionalities to focus testing on the core AI coaching experience.” 

A full list of missing features is available from this Fitbit forum post. They include: 

  • Nutrition tracking

  • Hydration tracking

  • Menstrual health

  • Community features

  • Badges

  • Social media sharing

  • Heart rate zone analysis for workouts

  • Running analytics for Pixel Watch 3 and 4 users (other devices don’t provide this data)

  • Syncing data from Aria Air smart scales

The post also notes that the AI coach treats certain subjects as off-limits for the moment, including those related to weight, body fat, running distance, and heart health measurements like ECG and irregular rhythm notifications.

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Posted by Pradershika Sharma

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The Tinymoose Pencil Pro Ultra is both an affordable accessory and a serious productivity tool, and it's currently on sale for $39.95 on StackSocial. It costs less than a third of what Apple charges for its stylus, and it works with an Android device thanks to its Smart Switch button on the top. A single press lets you jump from sketching on an iPad Pro to jotting notes on a Galaxy Tab without digging through settings. That makes it more flexible than most one-platform pens, especially for students or professionals who don’t want to carry two separate styluses. It also works on phones in dual mode, which could be handy if you like editing photos on your Android but use your iPad for work.

In use, the Pencil Pro Ultra does a lot right. Tilt sensitivity and palm rejection give you smooth shading and writing, at least on supported tablets, while zero-lag precision keeps lines from wobbling behind your strokes. Bluetooth gestures add a layer of convenience: one press takes you home, two pulls up multitasking, and a long press powers it on or off. As for the battery life, it holds its own with 10 hours of productivity, and supports fast charging via USB-C.

There are trade-offs, though. Palm rejection and tilt features only work in tablet mode, which means the experience is more basic when you’re on a phone. The magnetic attachment also doesn’t work outside of Apple’s tablets, so Android users will need to keep the included leather case handy. And while it’s backed by a six-month warranty, that’s shorter than what you get from bigger brands. Still, with three extra nibs, a carrying case, and cross-platform support baked in, it’s a compelling option for anyone who doesn’t want to lock into one ecosystem. If you’re a casual creator, note-taker, or multitasker who wants a stylus without splurging, this deal is worth considering.

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Posted by Jake Peterson

Here's a question you've probably never considered before: Would you buy a new iPhone if it didn't have any physical buttons? Sure, the part of the phone you interact with most is the touchscreen, so maybe it doesn't seem like such a big deal. But think about it: The side button, volume buttons, Action button, and Camera Control button would no longer click. Could you live without the clutter?

While Apple sells no such iPhone, and likely won't release one next year, it very well might roll out a buttonless iPhone in 2027—at least, physically buttonless. That year will mark the 20th anniversary of the iPhone, and it'll come as no surprise that rumors suggest Apple is planning something special for the "iPhone 20." And that something might include ditching all the mechanical buttons and replacing them with haptics.

A truly buttonless iPhone

If you owned an iPhone 7 or iPhone 8, you'll understand the idea here. Those iPhones replaced the mechanical Home button with a solid state haptic button. Essentially, Apple used clever haptic vibrations to create the illusion of a button press, but, in fact, the "button" doesn't move at all. You'll realize this if the phone is completely off: The once pressable Home button doesn't actually do anything. It's the same case with any MacBook released over the past decade: Your trackpad isn't actually a button, so when the computer is off, the glass doesn't move.

The suggestion that the iPhone 20 will replace all of its buttons with this type of tech comes from leaker Instant Digital, who has previously claimed Apple intend to build a button-free iPhone. In the past, Instant Digital only confirmed vague plans by Apple to create such a phone sometime in the future, but this week, the leaker was more definitive: In a post on Weibo, Instant Digital asserted that Apple has "completed functional verification" for these haptic buttons, and is planning for "mass production and application" with the iPhone 20. All of the buttons, from the Side button to the Camera Control buttons, would adopt this technology.

Interestingly, Instant Digital claims Apple will bridge the gap by simplifying the structure of the Camera Control button in next year's iPhone 18. Apple might remove the capacitive sensing layer of the button and keep just the pressure sensitivity. We'll have to see whether other rumors confirm this.

Would you buy a buttonless iPhone 20?

The iPhone 20 unveil is nearly two years away, and all rumors should be taken with a grain of salt. Apple might have big plans in store for this iPhone, but haptic buttons might not have anything to do with them. But let's assume for the sake of argument that Apple does exactly what Instant Digital suggests. Would you buy it?

This would be a fundamentally different experience from any other iPhone, or really, any other smartphone. Even if you once had an iPhone with a haptic Home button, you've always had physical buttons to control the volume, to call up Siri, or to shut down your device. Those experiences would feel different, and could be more difficult to use just by feel alone, unless Apple makes each "button" physically obvious.

It also calls into question how one would perform any hardware tasks that currently require physical buttons. Once Apple removed the physical Home button, you couldn't use it to reset the iPhone, so Apple gave the volume button that job instead. But if all buttons aren't really buttons anymore, how would you reset the iPhone if the screen becomes unresponsive? Plug it into a computer? Take it to an Apple Store? Say a prayer? My guess is Apple will have a solution, but at the moment, it's not clear what it would be.

Personally, I don't think the change would influence my buying decision one way or the other. I'm hopelessly stuck in Apple's ecosystem, so I'll likely upgrade whenever my current iPhone bites the dust. If my options at that point include an iPhone without buttons, so be it, but I wonder if other iPhone users feel the same. (Plenty of you are still mourning the loss of the headphone jack.)

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For nearly the first time since the Cape, I slept. It required me to spend hours after midnight waiting for my body to get the unconsciousness memo and then repeat the process this morning after a doctor's office called back at the crack of business, but construction has been precluded by the recurrent nor'easter rain and it worked. The dreams were nothing to write home about, but at least I had them. And then we had a mild power outage, but still. Sleep! I could get used to it.
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Posted by Daniel Oropeza

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Target has joined Walmart and Best Buy in unveiling its Black Friday sale plans. Target will be holding multiple sale events leading up to Black Friday across departments, including clothes, toys, electronics, and more. Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming sales.

What sales will Target have for Black Friday?

Target says it will have week-long deals every Sunday starting Nov. 2 through Dec. 24. It'll also have "Deal of the Day" sales with items going up to 50% off. Then, there will be an official Early Black Friday Sale followed by an actual Black Friday sale. If you happen to buy something from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24 that drops in price later, Target will match the price for you and refund you the difference.

When will Target's Black Friday sales be?

Here are all the sales Target will have:

  • Deal of the Day: From Nov. 1 through Dec. 24.

  • Week-long deals: Every Sunday from Nov. 2 through Dec. 24.

  • Early Black Friday Sale: A three-day event from Nov. 6 to 8.

  • Black Friday Sale: Black Friday starts online Thursday, Nov. 27, and in stores Friday, Nov. 28.

  • Holiday Price Match Guarantee: From Nov. 1 through Dec. 24.

What deals will Target have for Black Friday?

Target will have deals on gifts, holiday decor, toys, clothing, kitchen essentials, and more. Here are some deals Target has already publicized:

  • 40% off pajamas for all.

  • 40% off women and kids’ sweaters, sweatshirts, and sweatpants.

  • 40% off select holiday decor and lights.

  • 40% off select LEGO.

  • 40% off Cat & Jack toddler tees, shorts, and dresses.

  • 40% off Champion.

  • 40% off holiday sheets.

  • Up to 50% off small appliances and floorcare, including Ninja.

  • Up to 50% off select toys, including Barbie, FAO Schwarz, and Hot Wheels.

  • 30% off women’s and men’s Levi’s clothing.

Do you need to be a member to shop Target's Black Friday sale?

You will need to be a Circle member to take part in the sale, but unlike a Prime membership, Target Circle is free. You can sign up for an account on the Target app or Target.com.

You can also pay for a Target Circle 360 membership, which grants you early access to the sale as well as other perks, like same-day delivery. If you're a government assistance recipient or a student, you can save 50% on the one-year Circle 360 subscription; otherwise, it starts at $10.99 per month. But again, a paid membership isn't necessary to get all the best deals.

What are other retailers doing for Black Friday?

  • Best Buy's sales run from Oct. 31 until Dec. 24. It’s an especially good option if you’re a My Best Buy “Plus” or “Total” member.

  • Walmart is having deals from November 14 to December 1.

  • Amazon hasn't announced its sales plans yet, but it should do so soon.

If you gotta ask, you ain't gottit

Oct. 30th, 2025 07:18 pm
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Or words to that effect.

Anyway, general sense of Point Thahr, Misst, in this piece: Can I learn to be cool – even though I am garrulous, swotty and wear no-show socks?

Mind you, and perhaps this is a generational thing, I murmur, thinking of dark jazz cellars and so on, I so do not associate 'cool' with:

Cool people are desirable and in demand; others want to be them or be with them. That social clout readily converts into capital as people buy what you’re selling, hoping it will rub off on them.... A much-publicised paper recently published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that cool people are seen as possessing six attributes: they are extroverted, open, hedonistic, adventurous, autonomous and powerful.

WOT.

And further on, we have an interview with somebody author of article considers Peak Cool:

[S]tudying fashion in London, she learned how to talk her way into fashion week events, pretending she was “supposed to be there – like, no doubt about it”, she says, eyes glinting. She then parlayed that talent for networking into styling and creative consulting work. “All the coolest people I know are hustlers,” Delaney says. “If you’ve just had it given to you, then it’s not that cool.”

Hustlers??? The truly cool do not hustle.

Perhaps this strikes me as particularly Not Getting It because I have just been reading Eve Babitz?

And IMHO, you do not 'learn' to be cool: if you are cool, what you do is imbued with coolth, even if it doesn't tick the obvious boxes.

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Posted by Naima Karp

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If you don’t need luxury earbuds and are simply looking for wireless sound with solid performance, the JLab Go Air Pop Bluetooth Earbuds are a great option. Right now, they are on sale for $17.49 (originally $29.38), making them a great option for everyday buds that you can toss in a bag with your other daily essentials. At this price point, you might even want to grab a backup pair in case you misplace them.

While these earbuds don’t have active noise cancellation (ANC), they have moderate noise isolation and minimal sound leakage for the price, blocking out a fair amount of background noise. And while there isn't a dedicated companion app, these earbuds do have several EQ presets that allow you to customize the sound output. Battery life lasts around nine hours, but the charging case can provide an additional three charges.

Design-wise, this PCMag review notes that they’re small but secure, and an IP44 rating means that they can withstand a sweaty workout and a quick wipedown with a damp washcloth. The outer panels of the earbuds have touch-sensitive controls, but according to the review, they may take multiple taps to register input.  

Ultimately, if you need comfortable and budget-friendly wireless earbuds that perform well for workouts and everyday use (and if you don’t mind touch controls that can sometimes be a little finicky), the JLab Go Air Pop Bluetooth Earbuds offer strong value, especially at over 40% off.

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Posted by Meredith Dietz

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If you're looking for your next pair of running shoes, why not look for guidance from the runners logging more miles than the rest of us? After all, finding the perfect running shoes is about much more than style or brand preference—the right shoes are essential for performance, comfort, and injury prevention.

But with countless options available for both men and women, choosing the perfect pair can feel overwhelming. That's where data from Strava comes in: Thanks to thousands of runners logging their gear into the app, we know what some of the most popular shoes that real runners trust to carry them all 26.2 miles.

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Meredith Dietz</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://lifehacker.com/health/the-most-popular-running-shoes-at-nyc-marathon-and-what-ill-be-wearing?utm_medium=RSS">https://lifehacker.com/health/the-most-popular-running-shoes-at-nyc-marathon-and-what-ill-be-wearing?utm_medium=RSS</a></p><p>We may earn a commission from links on this page.</p><p>If you're looking for your next pair of running shoes, why not look for guidance from the runners logging more miles than the rest of us? After all, finding the perfect running shoes is about <a href="https://lifehacker.com/health/how-to-tell-if-your-running-shoes-fit-correctly" target="_blank"><u>much more</u></a> than style or brand preference&mdash;the right shoes are essential for performance, comfort, and injury prevention. </p><p>But with countless options available for both men and women, choosing the perfect pair can feel overwhelming. 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6 &gt; 3" x-on:click="showMore = !showMore" x-on:keydown.enter.prevent.stop="showMore = !showMore"> SEE 3 MORE <svg class="-mt-[2px] inline-block size-3 fill-current text-brand-green"> <use href="https://lifehacker.com/images/icons/spritemap.svg#sprite-chevron-down"></use> </svg> </button> </div> <h2 id="the-most-popular-running-shoes-according-to-strava">The most popular running shoes, according to Strava</h2><p>Strava has this data from runners who log the shoes they use for each. (Quick aside: If you aren't a Strava user, I recommend a <a href="https://lifehacker.com/health/track-running-progress-in-google-sheets?test_uuid=02DN02BmbRCcASIX6xMQtY9&amp;test_variant=B" target="_blank">spreadsheet like this</a> to keep track of all your juicy data). Not everyone uses Strava's gear-tracking feature, but for those who do, it's a great way to keep tabs on mileage per shoe. Most experts suggest swapping shoes every 300 to 500 miles, so it can be a handy reminder of when it&rsquo;s time for a new pair...unless you're my colleague Beth Skwarecki, who recently <a href="https://lifehacker.com/health/can-running-shoes-last-for-a-thousand-miles?test_uuid=02DN02BmbRCcASIX6xMQtY9&amp;test_variant=B" target="_blank">put over 1,000 miles on a pair of cheap running shoes</a> (things turned out just fine). </p><p>According to Strava's tracking data from last year's race, the three most popular shoes worn by NYC Marathon runners were:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Nike Free Run Flyknit</strong>. Sock-like, light and flexible, comfortable for long distances. (<a href="https://zdcs.link/91122w?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=Women%27s%20here&amp;short_url=91122w&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Women's here</a>, <a href="https://zdcs.link/QPVKKV?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=men%27s%20here&amp;short_url=QPVKKV&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">men's here</a>.)</p></li><li><p><strong>Nike Vaporfly</strong>. <a href="https://lifehacker.com/health/guide-to-choosing-running-shoes?test_uuid=02DN02BmbRCcASIX6xMQtY9&amp;test_variant=B" target="_blank">Carbon-plated</a> and lightweight, a surprising choice for longer distances like the marathon. (<a href="https://zdcs.link/QLMNNR?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=Women%27s%20here&amp;short_url=QLMNNR&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Women's here</a>, <a href="https://zdcs.link/QxxVVj?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=men%27s%20here&amp;short_url=QxxVVj&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">men's here</a>.)</p></li><li><p><strong>Saucony Endorphin Pro</strong>. A well-cushioned racing option with a softer feel than the Nike options. (<a href="https://zdcs.link/QmOJGj?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=Women%27s%20here&amp;short_url=QmOJGj&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Women's here</a>, <a href="https://zdcs.link/9wjbbp?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=men%27s%20here&amp;short_url=9wjbbp&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">men's here</a>.)</p></li></ul><p>If you ask me, the top choice is particularly intriguing. While the running world has been dominated by carbon-plated super shoes promising faster times and better energy return, the most popular shoe at NYC was the Nike Flyknit&mdash;a traditional trainer without the high-tech features that define modern racing shoes.</p><p>The Vaporfly and Endorphin Pro, on the other hand, uphold the carbon-plated trend that's been all the rage in the running scene. These shoes promise improved speed and reduced fatigue, though they come with steep price tags ($200 to $270) and shorter lifespans of just 150-250 miles.</p><h2 id="my-personal-choice-saucony-endorphin-speed-5">My personal choice: Saucony Endorphin Speed 5</h2><p>While many runners opted for full-on racing shoes or traditional trainers, I'll be wearing the <a href="https://zdcs.link/9112l8?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=Saucony%20Endorphin%20Speed%205&amp;short_url=9112l8&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">Saucony Endorphin Speed 5</a> for the marathon this Sunday. For me, the Speed 5 occupies a sweet spot between everyday trainer and race-day weapon. It features Saucony's responsive cushioning and a nylon plate (rather than carbon), making it versatile enough for training runs but still peppy enough for race day.</p><p>Unlike the racing shoes that dominated the Strava data, I prefer a shoe that offers:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Better durability</strong>: lasting 300+ miles compared to 150-250 for most super shoes.</p></li><li><p><strong>More versatility</strong>: comfortable enough for daily training, responsive enough for racing.</p></li><li><p><strong>Lower price point</strong>: typically $160-170 vs. $225-270 for top-tier racers.</p></li><li><p><strong>Reduced injury risk</strong>: the less aggressive plate and moderate cushioning are easier on the legs.</p></li></ul><p>For runners like me, who want performance without the commitment (and cost) of dedicated racing shoes, the Endorphin Speed line has become a go-to option. It's proof that you don't need the most expensive super shoe to have a great race.</p><p>If none of this data is helpful to you, <a href="https://lifehacker.com/health/the-best-running-shoes-for-men-women?test_uuid=02DN02BmbRCcASIX6xMQtY9&amp;test_variant=B" target="_blank">here's my guide to finding the perfect pair of running shoes</a>, no matter what kind of runner you are. The beauty of running is that there's no single right answer. Whether you're in traditional trainers, cutting-edge carbon racers, or something in between, the best shoe is the one that works for your feet and your goals. See you at the finish line.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://lifehacker.com/health/the-most-popular-running-shoes-at-nyc-marathon-and-what-ill-be-wearing?utm_medium=RSS">https://lifehacker.com/health/the-most-popular-running-shoes-at-nyc-marathon-and-what-ill-be-wearing?utm_medium=RSS</a></p>
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I run marathons. I post about running marathons. But you won't see my sweaty face mid-stride, my pace per mile, or the unglamorous truth of what 26.2 miles does to a body. No shots of my form breaking down at mile 20, no documentation of the new insecurities that crop up when you realize your running gait is asymmetrical or your breathing sounds like a dying dog. I share the accomplishment—the medal, the bib number, maybe a scenic shot from the course—but I carefully curate out the messy reality.

Is this humility? Self-protection? Or am I just bragging with plausible deniability, performing health while refusing to actually perform it? After all, isn't social media fundamentally a bragging platform, a highlight reel we all tacitly agree to maintain? But then why does hitting "post" feel like walking a tightrope between inspiration and judgment, between pride and shame? And why am I so acutely aware that in 2025, as thinness resurges as the aesthetic ideal and fatphobia floods our feeds with renewed vigor, any post about fitness exists in a minefield of interpretation? Social media may not be "the real world," but when it comes to our mental health and how we perceive our bodies, it's very much a real world—one with real consequences.

I put out a call on Instagram asking people about their relationship with posting workout data and fitness content. The response was overwhelming: well over a hundred replies, from fitness influencers building their brands, to private account holders who rarely post, and everyone in between. People were bursting to talk about this, which suggests we're all grappling with the same question: When does sharing our health journey become performing it—and what do we lose in translation?

The performance of health on social media

"Social media didn't create this—it just amplified what was already there in fitness culture," says Echo Wang, founder at Yoga Kawa. "It's become a place to gain clout and sell an image, so it's no surprise that wellness and gym culture thrive there. People have always wanted to look a certain way, which social media has just made public and constant."

What's shifted isn't necessarily the desire for fitness or even the vanity that sometimes drives it—it's the volume and velocity. Wang says that what’s really worrying "is how body image expectations keep getting more extreme. The duality of social media is that you have access to an infinite amount of knowledge and community, but at the same time, you are swimming in comparison and misinformation. The flood of conflicting advice keeps the industry spinning because everyone's searching for that quick fix or magic formula."

This sense of being pulled in contradictory directions was a major theme in my inbox. "I feel like I'm non-consensually being pulled in a million different directions regarding what I should be doing to benefit the most from working out," says Polina Jewel. "I'm thinking about reps, calorie deficits, and creatine, when the only way for me to feel better about exercising (read: being in my body) is turning inward and listening to what feels good, and using that information to better myself."

Even when you’re performing for no one but yourself, you internally negotiate the relationship between what you see in the mirror and what you feel in your body. Social media isn’t designed to cater to such a delicate, fraught balancing act. These platforms designed to share information have created such an overwhelming cacophony that the only escape is to tune it all out and listen to your own body. 

The true cost of "public accountability"

Ryan Nilsen sums up what many seemed to feel, saying that “public accountability helped me start a routine right off the bat for going to the gym, but never helped performance. I feel like I need to trick myself sometimes when developing a new routine."

Dr. Simon Faynboym, a psychiatrist at Neuro Wellness Spa, outlines both sides of the public accountability equation: "Posting your workouts can feel like you have your own cheer team; likes, leaderboards, and streaks make effort visible and give you quick hits of social reward. That public accountability can help people show up more consistently, especially if you thrive on competition, enjoy friendly challenges, or find it motivating to see progress over time."

But he quickly identifies the pitfall: "On the flip side, it's easy to chase vanity metrics like pace or the amount of steps at the expense of recovery and/or sleep. Constant benchmarking can create fitness performance anxiety, where the fear of looking slow, running less, cycling lower distance, or lifting less pushes people to overtrain or to curate only 'good' workouts."

One Instagram response about step tracking perfectly captured this sort of performance anxiety: "I've had a 10,000 step streak going since last year. I've been updating my friends online regularly, so I feel determined to push the streak to at least 365 days, but at some point within the past few months it became less about keeping myself fit and more about hitting the number even when I should probably rest." I’d be remiss not to mention that there’s nothing special about taking 10,000 steps each day in the first place. But the reasoning behind these goals gets lost in the pursuit of posting about achieving them. And when metrics inevitably don't align with expectations, people feel like failures.What started as a tool for accountability morphed into an obligation, potentially at the expense of the very health it was meant to promote.

Sara Lebow also voiced this contradiction behind the “public accountability” defense. She says, “most of what people are doing online is pseudoscience wellness, or a form of optimization that can only be described as an obsession with control, one that's bleeding into every part of our lives from work to dating. I want to work out and not track everything in this world. And yet, I weigh myself and then feel insecure, because that is what we do."

The illusion of effortlessness

If you’ve ever been served a “candid” photo of a fitness influencer, it probably hasn’t made you feel great about your own body. But isn’t it oh-so inspiring? #Bodygoals, right?

Matthew Singer, a yoga teacher, says most “fitspo” (fitness inspiration) “is as helpful for fitness as previous winning lottery numbers are for winning millions. Fitspo cannot take into account genetics, job and family circumstances, health history, or any of the other countless factors that influence health outcomes."

This gets at a fundamental problem: fitness inspiration content presents results without context, and bodies without the invisible scaffolding that created them. Similarly, actor Sean O'Connor says, “you have to remember that everything through the lens of a camera from a phone or otherwise is relatively propped up and fabricated, in the same way food commercials never use actual food.” The same mechanics apply to fitness influencers, O'Connor argues: "Even the selfie cam with no additional filters/digital trickery is a lens that doesn't exist in reality. Simply turning on a ring light illuminates your face in a way that would never happen organically out in the world."

But it's not just about angles and lighting. O'Connor describes the invisible infrastructure that makes aspirational bodies possible: "All these public figures have teams of people helping look effortless. They have nutritionists, private chefs, personal trainers, state of the art equipment at their homes and some even have a team of PR people helping them manage an eating disorder, scheduling out how to give them the bare minimum of nutrition to keep them relatively functional, not unlike a warden at a prison labor camp."

The class dimension is impossible to ignore: "These people don't have to work, commute, rush through lunch breaks, have to cook their own food or pack lunches so they won't be subject to the ever-declining quality of fast casual restaurant food. There is absolutely no reason to make yourself feel bad for comparing yourselves to wealthy public facing rich people with every resource imaginable at their disposal."

O'Connor reframes what fitness actually is: "Fitness is less about looking perfect and is more about taking small steps to achieve and maintain longevity to live a long and healthy life. Anyone trying to sell you a quick fix is lying. Fitness is a marathon. And it takes a ton of frustratingly small steps to see what you want to see in the mirror. Don't let the smoke and mirrors of social media dent the resolve of a slow and steady approach. Your body will thank you. (And so will your bank account because we live in a deeply stupid propaganda-riddled society where the healthcare system is run like a casino)."

Mason Boudrye, who describes himself as "someone known to post gratuitous thirst traps," offers perhaps the most layered perspective on the pressure to perform fitness online. "I think the first thing to consider is how many of the men literally flexing their physique online are enhanced using steroids/tren/testosterone etc.," he says. "Removing those from the equation, the next thing to consider is that for many creating this content is their job, so they're dedicating hours a day to achieving their aesthetic, which isn't remotely practical or realistic for most people."

Boudrye also describes the dark side to achieving the perfect thirst trap: "Body dysmorphia, disordered eating, and exercise bulimia,” that last one describing when “bulking” is actually binging and “cutting” is unhealthy restriction. “This is certainly true for me, and I know it's common, even if people don't admit that the obsessive tracking and strict adherence to diet qualifies as disordered eating."

But even with that self-awareness, Boudrye acknowledges the mental toll: "I have bad days where I am terrible to myself for failing to exercise, which sometimes transforms into resentment and indignation at the belief that people feel entitled to my body. This all might feel disingenuous considering my literal naked body is being liked and shared thousands of times as we speak. There's so many levels and elements to it." When you feel pressured to always perform a version of perfection—something unsustainable even to you—there’s naturally going to be shame on the days where you just can’t sustain it.

It’s so much more than metrics

Take it from me: Fitness is boring, incremental, unsexy work that happens outside the frame of social media entirely. The performance of fitness—the ring-lit selfie, the carefully pumped muscle, the optimized angle—bears almost no relationship to the actual practice of maintaining a healthy body over time. But that doesn't get likes.

Instead, another recurring theme was the observation that social media fitness culture has become almost entirely divorced from actual health. Especially when it comes to viral fitness content, the need for perfect aesthetics gets absurd. "The need to go viral causes these influencers to be absolutely out-of-pocket," says Andrew Barlow. "On the male side, I see extreme workouts including once a guy doing decline sit-ups while lifting a literal bench. From women influencers, it's hyper-sexualized, where their target demographic doesn't even seem to be women looking to be fit. Both of these are obviously issues in our culture in general, but exacerbated by the algorithm and chase of likes."

Echo Wang frames this disconnect in terms of what gets lost: "From a wellness point of view, that incessant chatter is what causes anxiety and burnout. The pressure to show that you are 'healthy' enough, 'fit' enough, or 'disciplined' enough is very tiring. When everything is about data, validation, and aesthetics, you lose the connection with your body." This goes for aesthetic-based apps like Instagram, but also ostensibly fitness-based ones too, like Strava with its leaderboards. Because when I post my runs on Strava, I keep all my data private—I'm too self-conscious to reveal what an utterly average runner I am, and I know plenty of runners who share my shame-based privacy. So, if you're anything less than perfect, why post at all?

Who is this performance really for?

Perhaps the most revealing question is: Who is the intended audience for fitness posts? The responses suggest even the posters themselves aren't always sure.

Claire Lower, former Lifehacker writer and powerlifting enthusiast, offers a perspective rooted in genuine love for her sport: "I like lifting, I look forward to it. I go to the gym whether I post or not. It has nothing to do with accountability—that's why I pay my trainer. Posting is a good way for me to document for myself and track my progress. But if you look at any video of a woman powerlifting, a man has something to say about her form; I don't want to reach a wider audience." Here, posting serves a documentary function—a digital training log—but Lower deliberately limits her audience to avoid unsolicited feedback and mansplaining that plague women in fitness spaces online. Good on her.

Chika takes a different approach, posting strategically with a specific political intent: "I post heavy lifts intentionally because it's really important to me that people see women lifting over 200 pounds, especially as there's this move to thinness. Granted, health/fitness is very low on the list of my online presence, and some of that is probably because I don't have the body of a traditional 'fitness girl', and so I fear if I posted regularly about working out, people would assume I'm on a 'fitness journey,' instead of just doing what I always do." Plus, I know firsthand that Chika is correct in saying that fitness content "is guaranteed to get a good response, so I often do it intentionally when I want to promote something else on my story."

For others, the audience becomes an unwelcome source of anxiety. Shenuque Tissera says, "I feel like there's some really great representations of fitness for the sake of health, but a lot of the content and performance of fitness online has made me feel bad. I definitely now feel a bit compelled to work out because of online health performance even though I started working out for my own needs and health concerns. And while I used to not judge myself over the regular fluctuations of my own body, I find myself doing way more negative talk about my body that gets heightened with social media."

Maya Almogy describes the comparison trap succinctly: "When I see other people post, all that functions as a reminder that I personally didn't run today. Even if I did run that day, and I saw a post that someone ran more? Now I get an overwhelming sense of inadequacy."

The fatphobia factor

The resurgence of thinness as the beauty ideal emerged as a particularly concerning theme. Jo Wild articulates the cognitive dissonance many feel: "I've recently seen a rebirth of fatphobia being seen as 'cool' that really disgusts me, and honestly makes me embarrassed to intentionally change my body in any way. I worry that the reason I want to be strong is that secretly I want to be skinny, and I don't want people to know that secretly I want to be skinny. At the same time, I don't fit into my favorite pants anymore, so maybe I only exercise in the hope that one day the button will close again. But I keep most of my gym time and dance classes off of socials, because I don't like to think I'm contributing to a 'health craze' that's really just fatphobia in a poor disguise."

This represents a new layer of anxiety, not just about whether you're fit enough, but about whether your pursuit of fitness makes you complicit in a larger cultural problem. It's performance anxiety about the performance of fitness itself.

Alex Phipps, a fitness instructor, gave me an interesting counterpoint about online fitness classes: "People who normally didn't work out or like working out really got into it way more than they did in person, and a lot of them told me that they felt that they couldn't work out any other way, because they were terrified of being perceived by other 'conventional' fitness people. But online, they felt free to try and actually push themselves. The idea of strength as opposed to thinness being the goal is what has always motivated me, and it's what I'd try to cultivate in my students."

This suggests that for some, the digital space actually provides more freedom from judgment than physical gyms—though this creates its own irony given how much anxiety others experience from posting workouts online.

Finding balance

Faynboym offers practical advice for navigating this landscape: "The best fix is to occasionally hide or de-emphasize numbers that trigger you, share selectively, set goals you control, think of long-term progress, and post about rest days and form wins as often as you feel. Ultimately, use the crowd for support and let the metrics follow your body's needs, not the other way around."

But one of my favorite assessments comes from Dorian Debose, who posts fitness progress as part of adult content: "I think the vast majority of people are happy to see you make an effort. They understand it's a process and they're accepting of your faults. I project my own insecurities out onto them. I think for me, that's like shadow boxing." In other words, much of the performance anxiety around posting fitness content isn't about what the audience actually thinks. It's about what we fear they think, which is often just a projection of our own harshest self-judgments.

The overwhelming message from these responses is that fitness culture on social media exists in a state of productive tension: It can inspire and support, but it can just as easily trigger comparison, anxiety, and a disconnection. 

The question isn't whether to post or not to post—it's whether we can find a way to engage with these platforms that keeps the focus on our actual bodies and health, rather than the performance of health for an audience that may be more imagined than real.

And maybe that starts with posting the sweaty face after all. Or not posting at all. Or posting only on days when it feels like record-keeping, rather than performance. The answer, frustrating or freeing as it may seem, is there is no answer to how you should post. Like with posting pictures of your kids, or your political opinions, or that perfectly curated gym selfie you snuck in the locker room: It’s your choice. There’s private physical experience, and there’s how we package that up for a wider audience. It’s an ongoing negotiation, and you need to be honest with yourself if you’re getting a raw deal.

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Posted by Michelle Ehrhardt

Adobe just wrapped up its Max keynote, which means its time for its biggest free competitor to announce its own set of new features. While Adobe's done its best to keep up with Canva by adding its own free, web-based tools to its lineup, the simple browser-based editor has become a key part of my creative routine. Now, it's coming for more of Adobe's lunch by launching a "creative operating system," which while largely a rebrand of existing (but expanding) tools, smacks of the Photoshop makers' "creative cloud" branding. As part of the update, Canva's introducing a bunch of—say it with me—AI to its products, but is also taking a big swing by making popular Photoshop alternative Affinity free for everyone.

AI will hold your hand while designing

Ask Canva
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Adobe made its own AI promises during its Max keynote, with the biggest one being "AI Assistant in Adobe Express." The feature essentially lets you create or refine whole designs from an AI chat box, all in the company's Canva-like free web editor. Not to be outdone, Canva is also bringing an AI assistant to its browser-based designer, but it's promising finer control than Adobe's version.

AI Assistant in Adobe Express is a bit odd, in that toggling it on takes away your toolbar. The idea is to simplify things, but it also adds a bit of a barrier to asking for help. Meanwhile, Canva's trying to naturally integrate AI into its entire workflow by upgrading its existing Ask Canva chatbot.

Right now, Ask Canva simply sits in one spot on your screen, where you can ask it to generate text or images for you. Now, Canva says you can summon it anywhere in your design, and it'll be able to give you feedback, make suggestions, or make edits for you, all related to specific design elements.

Alongside an updated AI model, the idea is to make it a "true creative partner," but personally, I'm just glad that accidentally bringing it up won't dismiss my tools.

Canva Video 2.0

Canva Video 2.0
Credit: Canva

Keeping with the AI theme, Canva's also redesigning its video editor with a new mobile-friendly interface and an expanded ability to instantly create a publishable video with a single prompt.

You'll still be able to manually edit a timeline if you like, and you can still generate AI footage as separate clips to put alongside or layered over your other footage, but the new system aims to make it easy to go right from raw footage to posting a video on your timeline.

Called Magic Video, it works like the existing Magic Design feature, but Canva says it's a bit more powerful. You'll upload clips and tell the AI what type of video you want, just like with Magic Design, but you'll also be to select a tone for your video and an editing style from dropdown menus, then navigate through a "new library of on-trend templates" to get your final result. That should mean more control, but also more transition effects and title cards.

It's all free, and it reminds me of Adobe's upcoming YouTube Shorts feature for Premiere, which is getting added to the free Premiere iPhone app as well as directly into YouTube. That's not set to release for a while yet, but Adobe says it'll come with "exclusive" effects, transitions, stickers, and templates, although no AI to put it all together for you. It will, though, let you publish directly to YouTube without having to leave the app. Canva can do this with a few platforms, like Instagram, but doesn't have direct integration with YouTube yet.

Whether you prefer having an AI assistant and a more platform-agnostic approach, or an editor with a direct pipeline to publishing, is up to you.

Affinity is now free for everyone, "forever"

Affinity screenshot
Credit: Canva

Moving away from AI and browser-based editors, Canva's also got some news regarding the popular standalone Photoshop alternative, Affinity. As a downloadable tool, this offers finer control than Canva's web-based editor, including tools like vector editing, and that makes sense—it wasn't always part of Canva's family. Canva actually bought Affinity in March of last year, and while an acquisition of a beloved tool isn't always good news for existing users, Canva's latest announcement should go a long way towards earning some good will.

Part of what made Affinity stand out was its buy-it-once-and-keep-it-forever pricing, which made it highly competitive next to Photoshop's subscription model. Now, Canva says it's making Affinity free for everyone, "forever."

That's an improvement over the app's prior free models, which were limited to iPad spinoffs and Education accounts. It's also a shot across the bow at the competition. While Adobe has been making free light versions of its core apps for mobile and web over the past few years, it has yet to take the plunge with a fully-featured free desktop editor.

Aside from pricing, Canva also says it's combining all of Affinity's various functions into one program, so you'll no longer need to swap between Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher based on your needs.

Improvements for businesses

Canva Grow
Credit: Canva

While many of Canva's users are individuals using the free versions of its editors, the company does have an enterprise plan for businesses, and a few of today's updates are tailor-made for them.

That includes Canva Grow, a new product aimed at marketers for launching ads, as well as a "brand system" that will help teams stay consistent with which apps they're using.

On a smaller scale, though, you can also now finally use Canva to design HTML elements for email, which could be useful to large and small businesses and individuals. Additionally, Canva is getting its own survey system called "Forms," which can be added to websites or other designs and will flow responses into your Canva Sheets.

Speaking of Canva Sheets, it can now interact with Canva Code, meaning you can use data from Sheets to power interactive widgets like live dashboards or calculators.

All of that's a bit more intensive than what I use Canva for, but I'm sure some folks are raising their hands up in relief right now.

When is all of this going live?

Compared to Adobe, where most of the features announced at Max are either still in beta or development, Canva's newest updates will start rolling out in their live versions today, as part of its Creative Operating System launch.

Personally, I'm not big on using AI in design, but free Affinity could carry the launch for me in and of itself. Add in those quality-of-life features for businesses, and it's clear Adobe will have to keep experimenting with its low-cost and browser-based editors to keep up.

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Posted by Jake Peterson

In the beginning, WhatsApp users could not protect their chat backups with encryption—while all communications were encrypted end-to-end, backups weren't afforded the same protection. Since 2021, however, WhatsApp has offered two ways for users to encrypt these backups: a standard password, or a 64-digit encryption key.

There are security issues with both of these methods. Passwords can be secure, but let's be real, many of us use very simple passwords that are easy to remember, and, in some cases, we even repeat passwords from account to account to make things easier on our brains. If your password for WhatsApp backups is the same password you use for your email, and the latter gets leaked, hackers can easily break into your WhatsApp backups. Not good. (Side note: Please use a strong and unique password for all of your accounts.)

The 64-digit encryption key, on the other hand, is extremely secure. It would take a computer a long time to crack (perhaps a few lifetimes) and would be essentially impossible for a human to guess. But it's 64 characters long. You're not going to remember it, and if you don't store it somewhere safe and secure, you could lose track of it—and with it, access to your encrypted chat backups. Again, not good.

On Thursday, however, WhatsApp announced it is adding a new authentication method to protect your encrypted backups, and a big improvement over the existing two options: passkeys. If you choose to encrypt your chat backups with a passkey, you'll be able to decrypt them the same way you unlock your device, such as with your fingerprint, face scan, or device passcode.

Passkeys offer the best of both passwords and two-factor authentication (2FA). The "key" is stored on-device or associated with your account, so there's no passphrase to remember, write down, or store in a password manager. That means you don't need to worry about it landing in a hacker's hands due to a data leak. The only way to access the passkey is to authenticate yourself with a connected and trusted device, such as your smartphone. Without your fingerprint, face scan, or passcode, no one is getting into your encrypted backups.

How to check if you have passkey support

WhatsApp says it is gradually rolling out this passkey support "over the coming weeks and months." To check if your account supports it, head to Settings > Chats > Chat backup > End-to-end encrypted backup.

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Daniel Oropeza</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://lifehacker.com/tech/best-oled-tv-of-2025-is-500-off?utm_medium=RSS">https://lifehacker.com/tech/best-oled-tv-of-2025-is-500-off?utm_medium=RSS</a></p><p>We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.</p><p>It's impressive when new flagship TVs that came out this year drop in price months after their release, but when they also happen to be the <a href="https://lifehacker.com/tech/best-65-inch-tvs?test_uuid=02DN02BmbRCcASIX6xMQtY9&amp;test_variant=A" target="_blank">best OLED TV your money can buy</a>, it becomes a bargain (well, if you can afford it). 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The bigger <a href="https://zdcs.link/QGrN88?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=77-inch&amp;short_url=QGrN88&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">77-inch</a> and <a href="https://zdcs.link/z7MARG?pageview_type=RSS&amp;template=content&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=83-inch&amp;short_url=z7MARG&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window">83-inch</a> series are also at their lowest prices right now.</p><div class="shadow-b-2 mb-12 mt-10 rounded-md border-2 border-[#F0F0F0] px-6 py-2 shadow-lg md:px-12" role="region" aria-label="Products List" x-data="{ showMore: false }"> <a href="https://cc.lifehacker.com/v1/otc/06ZVRiLmglGs4QA6plTXzTC?merchant=05kie42h3YvHwjr4G1w80Qq&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB0DYQR8R98%3Fth%3D1&amp;template=Deals&amp;module=product-list&amp;element=offer&amp;item=offer-btn&amp;position=1&amp;element_label=LG+65-Inch+Evo+G5+OLED+TV+%28OLED65G5WUA%29&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss&amp;product_uuid=07DjT1EIASeRmAtrmK5iDEB&amp;offer_uuid=03mMgZY6v85N4SSclVH911h&amp;pageview_type=RSS&amp;object_type=03mMgZY6v85N4SSclVH911h&amp;object_uuid=07DjT1EIASeRmAtrmK5iDEB&amp;data-aps-asin=B0DYQR8R98&amp;data-aps-asc-tag=lifehack088-20&amp;data-aps-asc-subtag=03mMgZY6v85N4SSclVH911h" data-commerce="1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow sponsored" data-parent-group="affiliate-link" title="(opens in a new window)" class="flex flex-col py-8 gap-5 border-dotted border-[#CFCFCE] cursor-default no-underline md:flex-row md:gap-y-2 md:py-7 border-b-2" data-ga-click="data-ga-click" data-ga-module="product-list" data-ga-element="offer" data-ga-item="offer-btn" data-ga-label="LG 65-Inch Evo G5 OLED TV (OLED65G5WUA)" data-ga-position="1" aria-label="LG 65-Inch Evo G5 OLED TV (OLED65G5WUA) Product Card" x-cloak="x-cloak" x-show="showMore || 0 &lt; 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That means you can actually use this OLED TV in a bright room without getting the quality washed away.</p><p>The color accuracy is on point out of the box, and it comes with a 165Hz VRR, 12.9 ms of input lag in Game Mode, and a 120Hz native refresh rate, making it great for gaming, according to PCMag's <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/lg-65-inch-evo-g5-oled-tv" target="_blank" title="open in a new window" rel="noopener"><u>"outstanding" review</u></a>. They also deemed it the best OLED TV of 2025. 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Posted by Beth Skwarecki

It will soon be time, once again, for our clocks to “fall back.” Nov. 2 is the date most places in the U.S. quit daylight saving time for 2025 and go back to standard time. We're still on this clock-changing treadmill, despite legislation that was supposed to eliminate it a few years ago, and despite medical professionals warning that these clock changes are bad for our health.

For example, a recent study out of the Stanford School of Medicine found that switching the time back and forth every year probably contributes to increased rates of stroke and obesity. Permanent daylight saving time would be an improvement on that, and permanent standard time would be even better, health-wise. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine published a position paper a few years ago stating that scientific evidence supports the idea "that the United States should eliminate seasonal time changes in favor of permanent standard time, which aligns best with human circadian biology."

But despite all this, we’ll still have to turn the clocks ahead again in spring. So what ever happened to those bills in Congress aiming to abolish the time changes?

The most recent attempt to eliminate clock changes failed

The Sunshine Protection Act was a federal bill that would have made daylight saving time permanent. If enacted, it would have taken effect on Nov. 5, 2023, the date that we would otherwise have changed the clocks. The result would be that our winter mornings would stay dark an hour longer than they currently do, but we’d get an hour more of daylight in the winter evenings.

The bill passed the Senate in March of 2022, but it wasn't taken up by the House of Representatives. To become law, it would have had to pass the House and then be signed by the president. At this point, that ship has sailed: The Hill reported that people generally like the idea of abolishing clock changes, but that there was no consensus in the House on whether daylight time or standard time should become permanent. Moreover, passing the bill just never seemed to be a high priority for lawmakers.

Which time would we stay with if we stopped changing the clocks?

We operate on two different times throughout the year: "standard time" and "daylight saving time." These even get their own time zones! For example, if a time is marked as "EST," that means eastern standard time, which is different from eastern daylight time.

Standard time is the one we use in winter, and daylight saving time is the one we use in summer. The bill mentioned above would have done away with standard time and kept us on daylight saving time year-round. Meanwhile, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine has taken the position that we should stay on standard time (that is, winter time) year-round, since screwing with our circadian rhythms twice a year has detrimental effects on our health and safety. If they got their way, we would fall back some year and then never spring forward again.

What about state laws?

States have their own ideas about what time it should be. Currently, states are not allowed to switch to permanent daylight saving time, but they are allowed to stay on standard time year-round if they prefer. Two states do so: Hawaii and Arizona (minus the parts of Arizona in the Navajo nation).

Nineteen states have passed laws or resolutions that would allow them to switch to permanent daylight saving time if the federal government ever allows them to do so. Those states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, are Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Three other states have made attempts to join the list: Similar bills made it partway through the Kentucky and Ohio legislatures but were not signed into law. California voters have authorized a law that isn’t yet officially on the books.

Until a federal law passes, those states are stuck with their current time zones. Current federal law, as passed in 1966, allows states to opt out of daylight saving time (as Hawaii and Arizona have) but does not offer a way for states to make daylight saving time permanent or to choose their own dates for changing the clocks. If you’re sick of time changes, you can always move to one of the territories that don’t observe daylight saving, which include the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

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Posted by Jake Peterson

Even in 2025, Google.com still knows how to have fun. If you tend to rely on your browser's address bar for Google Search, you might miss the company's latest "Doodle." But today, Oct. 30, if you head to the Google homepage, you'll find a Halloween-themed surprise: a fully playable PAC-MAN game, outfitted with spooky mazes and characters.

The Halloween part makes sense, seeing as the holiday is tomorrow. But why PAC-MAN? As it happens, this year marks the game's 45th anniversary. For this Doodle, Google says it partnered with PAC-MAN's parent company, Bandi Namco Entertainment, to feature a celebratory PAC-MAN game on the homepage.

If you're familiar with PAC-MAN, you won't have any trouble getting into Google's version. This is the core PAC-MAN experience players have navigated since 1980: You control PAC-MAN through a maze, eating all the dots along the way. If you crash into one of the four ghosts floating around the maze (Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde), you die, unless you eat an "Power Pellet," in which case you're free to eat the ghosts. According to Google, this game has eight levels, with four haunted-house mazes.

I do appreciate the effort that went into this experience. Sure, the PAC-MAN gameplay is the same as ever, but the Halloween-themed mazes are fun. I also love the attention to detail with the graphics: The visuals have scan-lines, which sells the retro look. You won't be getting 4K crispy pixels in this game, and that only makes it feel like you're back at your local arcade.

Google says the game is only available today (Oct. 30) and tomorrow (Oct. 31) from the homepage, though I would hope it will be made available elsewhere (Google Doodle games are typically archived). But if you want to give it a shot, try it out now just in case.

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Posted by Lindsey Ellefson

Sticking to a workout schedule is tough even when everything is going normally and you have a pretty standard daily routine. Once you add travel into the mix, it can feel impossible. Sure, hotels have fitness centers, but if you've ever gone to one only to learn it's nothing more than a few dumbbells and an ancient treadmill, you know how aggravating those can be. There are two apps I use to stick to my routine and prioritize my health while I'm on the road, but I use them quite differently.

ClassPass

After discovering last month that ClassPass houses a little-known, but varied, selection of at-home workout classes to stream, I happily re-downloaded the app for the first time in years. If you're not familiar, you buy monthly credits that you can redeem at gyms and fitness studios, trading a handful of credits for, say, a yoga or HIIT class. (You can also use it for salon and spa services, which is a cool upgrade that app has gotten since I last used it.)

I used it all around my neighborhood in New York City for a month, checking out all the boutique studios near me, and found some I loved and others I was glad I didn't spend full price on a trial class for. But last week, when I was home visiting my mom in North Dakota, I checked ClassPass—and sure enough, yoga, barre, spin, and Pilates classes came up. I hadn't entirely expected it to work; it's one thing for a well-populated location like Manhattan to have a bunch of offerings on there, but Bismarck? Yes, Bismarck! I went to a barre class and it was awesome, exactly what I needed to stay on track with my workout schedule and destress after a disastrous night of airline mishaps.

In the next three months, I'm going to West Virginia, Nebraska, and Mississippi. That's how your vacation schedule looks when you're on a mission to visit all 50 states (and I only have eight to go). According to ClassPass, I'll be able to take a yoga class in Charleston, do HIIT in Omaha, and book time at a pickleball court in Biloxi. All of that beats a hotel fitness center by a mile. Even the smallest cities are well-represented on this app and you can get a real, full class experience wherever you are.

Peloton

I am a dedicated Peloton user and the app gets daily use from me, even if I'm only using it to track my outdoor walks. If you can't find the time or transportation to get to an in-person class, you have loads of options through Peloton, many of which can be completed in your hotel room, like yoga or stretching.

There are guided walks available so you can take yourself on a mindful explorative journey around wherever you are, but you can also find loads of hotels that have Peloton cardio equipment. Usually, the Bikes or other equipment are in a fitness center, but I've seen hotels that even have them available in-room.

Even if you can only devote 10 minutes to working out, it's better than nothing and keeps you in your groove, which is why I value the Peloton app so much. I did, of course, use it to track the barre class I took in Bismarck, plus the Les Mills Body Pump and Solidcore classes I took there, too.

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