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By David Uzondu · Posted
Nextdoor rolls out massive redesign with AI recommendations and emergency alerts by David Uzondu Nextdoor, the neighborhood social app people love to hate, is rolling out a massive design overhaul bringing a more modern look, real-time alerts, and of course, in this day and age, an AI feature called "Faves". The platform, often known for spiraling into petty disputes and occasional racial profiling, has long struggled to shake its reputation as a "snitch app". Since its launch, it has grown to over 80 million users (or "neighbors" as Nextdoor calls them) across over 300,000 neighborhoods. Now, it is trying to steer the ship in a new direction. Speaking with TechCrunch, the company's CEO and co-founder, Nirav Tolia, said that the goal is to increase the quality and quantity of local information. Tolia explained that Nextdoor has historically relied completely on user-generated content, which has been a mixed bag. The service is adding feeds from 3,500 local news publishers across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Since it's a content partnership, not a commercial one, Nextdoor will not host the articles but will instead display headlines and snippets to drive traffic back to the publishers. The other major addition is a system for real-time safety updates and a partnership with Weather.com that will allow Nextdoor to push "hyperlocal" alerts for power outages, wildfires, and major storms. Tolia described a "red state" alert that can take over the entire app, because when a wildfire is approaching, nobody cares about the "conversations neighbors are having about pickleball." He also noted the platform's geospatial foundation allows for alerts targeted down to a specific street, unlike more generalized Amber Alerts. As for Faves, the AI feature is built on a proprietary LLM supposedly trained on 15 years of private neighbor conversations. Nextdoor claims this is better than ChatGPT for local queries because the data is not indexed by search engines and contains hyperlocal knowledge you just cannot find elsewhere. Instead of sifting through dozens of posts, you can ask a question like "What is the best place to hike with kids?" and get a summarized answer based on past discussions. -
By Copernic · Posted
PicView 3.1.5 by Razvan Serea PicView is a fast, free and fully customizable image viewer for Windows 10 and 11. It supports a vast range of image file types, including WEBP, GIF, SVG, PNG, JXL, HEIC, PSD and many others. Additional features includes viewing EXIF metadata, image compression, batch resizing, viewing images within archives and comic books, image effects, image galleries, and more. Available in portable and installable versions. PicView 3.1.5 changelog: Improvements Migration from ReactiveUI to R3: PicView now uses R3 instead of ReactiveUI for its application infrastructure. This results in: Reduced File Size: The application's size reduced by approximately 34%. Performance Enhancements Rendering speed, especially when resizing the window, has been significantly improved. Image Info Window The Google and Bing map link buttons are now enabled only when longitude and latitude values are available from the image. The "Optimize image" button is now disabled in the Image Info window when the format is unsupported. Added the option to remove image metadata. This can be accessed in the context menu by right-clicking. (#211). Context Menu Simplified the set wallpaper function in the main context menu. The Fill, Fit, Center, and Tile options have been moved to the Image Info window's context menu. Added a new context menu to the rotation button in the window's title bar. Clicking it now provides options to: Rotate to 0°, 90°, 180°, or 270°, as well as flip the image. Fixed an issue where content in the context menu was not clickable in blank areas (#215). Bug Fixes Fixed the image flipping function not working (#218). Fixed a crash when removing the image's EXIF rating in the Image Info window (#219). Fixed navigational errors when saving files outside the currently viewed directory. Fixed the Previous button (in the bottom toolbar) not being triggered continuously when the pointer is held down. Miscellaneous Updated Avalonia to 11.3.2. Updated Magick.NET to 14.7.0. Updated ZLinq and ZLinq.FileSystem to 1.5.0. Improved the Light theme (still a work in progress). Renamed Clip-holder to Clipboard (#220). Added support for decimal values in the Batch Resize window (#204). Download: PicView 3.1.5 | Portable ~30.0 MB (Open Source) Download: PicView ARM64 | Portable ARM64 Links: PicView Home Page | Github Project Page | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware -
By Sagar Naresh · Posted
iPhone 17 leaker refutes own claim about base model using last year's A18 chip by Sagar Naresh Bhavsar A lot has already been seen and heard about this year's iPhone 17 lineup. It is rumored that this year, the selfie cameras on all iPhone 17 models will get a bump from 12MP to 24MP. More importantly, the entire lineup, except for the base iPhone 17, will get a new camera module on the back. However, there was some disappointing news for the base iPhone 17. First, it was reported that it could still miss out on the ProMotion display. Meaning, the base iPhone 17 won't get a display that refreshes from 24Hz to 120Hz, and it will be exclusive to the Pro models. Another rumor claimed that Apple may continue using last year's A18 chipset on the base iPhone 17. Analyst Jeff Pu suggested that the base model would not only be sticking with the A18 chip but would also retain 8GB of RAM. Fast forward to now, Jeff Pu has refuted his previous claims and now says that the iPhone 17 will get an A19 chipset. This will be the same as the iPhone 17 Air, Apple's slim model that is expected to replace the "Plus" model. While Pu reversed his statement about the processor, he reiterated that the base iPhone 17 will continue to feature 8GB RAM. Here's what Pu said (via 9to5Mac); While there's no clarity about the iPhone 17 Air, Ming Chi-Kuo has previously claimed that only Pro models will feature 12GB RAM. The base iPhone 17 is also expected to feature in-house Wi-Fi chips. Moreover, this year, Apple is rumored to increase the prices of this year's models, an effect of President Trump's tariffs. -
By Innervisions33 · Posted
I saw it on opening day... it's good, but I was disappointed that it was such a James Gunn movie. I think I just expected something else, something more, something a touch more serious... even while knowing who was directing it and his style. It's absolutely worth seeing on the big screen. -
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