All posts tagged: Rebuilt

I rebuilt my Samsung home screen from scratch and stopped wasting time finding apps

I rebuilt my Samsung home screen from scratch and stopped wasting time finding apps

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Samsung’s One UI has come a long way, but even the best software can’t stop a home screen from becoming a chaotic mess over time. Looking at my Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, some home screen pages were cluttered beyond repair while others sat entirely empty. I decided to wipe the slate clean and rebuild my layout from scratch. Related I replaced my Samsung home screen with a custom open-source launcher, and I’m never going back My old Samsung feels like new. Get rid of all the unnecessary home screen pages Start with a blank slate The Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra boasts a huge screen, and the last thing you need is sixty different apps staring back at you on the home screen. To start off, get rid of all the home screens except one. This can be achieved by long-pressing the empty spaces on the home screen and deleting every other home screen page. After that, I manually deleted all the app shortcuts, widgets, and folders from the remaining home screen pages until I was …

Blink-182’s Travis Barker survived a plane crash that killed four. A new documentary celebrates the life he rebuilt

Blink-182’s Travis Barker survived a plane crash that killed four. A new documentary celebrates the life he rebuilt

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Just three minutes into the documentary “Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear,” police dashcam video captures the fiery 2008 plane crash in South Carolina that killed four people and left the Blink-182 drummer as a survivor. Spanning the years 2017 to 2026, the documentary celebrates Barker’s life both before and after the transformative accident, a defining moment in a milestone-filled career. The project initially served as a screen adaptation of his 2015 memoir, “Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums.” However, the narrative evolved after a producer suggested closing the film with Barker—then unable to fly because of post-traumatic stress disorder—merely walking toward a plane. Barker resisted an ending “where this thing still has power over me,” opting instead to board the aircraft at the conclusion. The documentary finishes with a slide show of family photographs, featuring his …

Did Jesus Secretly Curse the Jewish Temple Ensuring It Would Never Be Rebuilt? – OpentheWord.org

Did Jesus Secretly Curse the Jewish Temple Ensuring It Would Never Be Rebuilt? – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

168 | Did Jesus Secretly Curse the Jewish Temple Ensuring It Would Never Be Rebuilt? FOLLOW OUR PODCAST ON (search opentheword): PODCAST NOTES: A recent Israel365 News article highlighted the importance of a third Jewish temple for the Jewish faith. Yet an incident recorded in both Matthew and Mark hints that Jesus may have secretly cursed the temple, ensuring it will never be rebuilt. In his article, Adam Berkowitz wrote about three pronouncements made by Israel’s nascent Sanhedrin which was set up in 2004, as a rabbinical court of Jewish law. It hopes to eventually have the Israeli government recognize it as the country’s official Sanhedrin and integrate it into the political and legal system. Though this hasn’t happened yet, the nascent Sanhedrin released three psaks. According to Berkowitz, a psak is a “binding halachic ruling, and that, in matters concerning the fate of the Jewish people, a court above is bound to follow the ruling of a court below.” In other words, these psaks uttered by the lower Sanhedrin court will be carried out …

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

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Nearly a year ago, Elon Musk-owned X announced it would begin rebuilding the Android version of its app, which had not held up well compared with its iOS counterpart. On Monday, the company shipped the refreshed app, which is now available to download. The new Android version of X was built from scratch and promises improvements to loading, scrolling, notifications, and more, X said in its announcement. We’ve completely rebuilt the Android X app from the ground up. It’s faster, smoother, and more reliable than the old version in every way. We modernized the foundation so everything just feels better: scrolling, loading, notifications, you name it.pic.twitter.com/ULlSwiIlvV — Engineering (@Engineering) July 20, 2026 The update has been in development for nearly a year. Last August, X head of product Nikita Bier said the social network company was putting together an Android “dream team” to reshape the experience. Later that fall, he also noted that X had one of its biggest weeks ever for Android downloads in October — a reason why the new app was a …

Intuit will show off how it rebuilt its AI infrastructure to support fast and complex tasks at VB Transform 2026

Intuit will show off how it rebuilt its AI infrastructure to support fast and complex tasks at VB Transform 2026

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Customer expectations have shifted from simple, fast conversational interactions to complex agentic AI-powered tasks that legacy IT architectures simply can’t handle.  To address this, Intuit made the bold decision to overhaul its technical infrastructure for its business platform. The company moved away from its multi-agent setup, which prioritized broad capabilities, to a granular, skill-and-tool-based architecture while embedding human experts directly into the workflow alongside AI. This shift involved decomposing its massive agents into specialized components, separating the brain from the hands, essentially. “We went from a multi-agent system where we had large agents that did a lot to fully incorporating workflows, skills and tools down to the base level,” said Nhung Ho, VP of AI at Intuit. “We changed the orchestrator, we changed the planner, we changed the brain, and we also changed what everybody had to build across the whole company.” At VB Transform 2026 on July 14 and 15, Ho will share details about the technology decisions behind building an abstraction layer behind Intuit’s system of intelligence. She’ll also share how the new …

I lost my beloved husband after 35 years, then my sister and my father. Here’s how I rebuilt my old happy self | Bereavement

I lost my beloved husband after 35 years, then my sister and my father. Here’s how I rebuilt my old happy self | Bereavement

Published by Sam Flores

I didn’t think I could survive the death of my husband, Graham. We met at university when I was 18, and for 35 years we made a great team. We both worked full-time and, while I organised our many marathon and backpacking trips abroad, and pursued my ambition of becoming an author and hypnotherapist, he supported me by taking care of most of the domestic chores and DIY. When he was seconded to Bahrain for eight months in 2003, he left me a typed, two-page instruction manual explaining how to operate the dishwasher, washing machine and TV (in fairness, it wasn’t simply a matter of pressing “on”). When, in 2017, Graham was diagnosed with asbestos-related lung cancer and given between 18 months and five years to live, the shock was profound. But, once the initial terror had subsided, we made a choice: to live in hope, not fear. We vowed to make the most of whatever time Graham had left, rather than mentally rehearse or fear his death. We both continued working, travelling, running half …

Syria cannot heal without a rebuilt health system | Syria’s War

Syria cannot heal without a rebuilt health system | Syria’s War

Published by Sam Flores

Last week, European Union and Syrian officials met in Brussels for high-level talks on the country’s reconstruction. The EU’s support for Syria’s health system, including 14 million euros ($16.25m) to rehabilitate Ar-Rastan Hospital in Homs, is a significant contribution that merits recognition. While the EU is demonstrating what strategic investment can achieve, the gap between the conditions returnees face and what they need for a healthy life remains a major barrier for the country’s recovery. After 14 years of conflict, Syria is facing a public health crisis that no government can address on its own. The restoration of health services will instead require large-scale, coordinated action from across the international community. A recent report authored by my organisation, Relief International, details the crisis at hand: many of the 3.7 million Syrians who have returned home are encountering a health system left fractured and struggling after years of devastation. According to our findings, 78 percent of returnees in Deir Az Zor reported that healthcare was unavailable. In al-Tebni district, 41 percent of surveyed households said at …

D&B’s database of 642 million businesses was built for humans, not AI agents. So they rebuilt it.

D&B’s database of 642 million businesses was built for humans, not AI agents. So they rebuilt it.

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Dun & Bradstreet has spent over 180 years building a comprehensive commercial database. Its Commercial Graph, covering 642 million businesses and their relationships, corporate hierarchies and risk profiles, was designed for people. Credit analysts, risk managers and sales professionals who could wait for query results and work through ambiguous entity matches. AI agents cannot do any of those things. When D&B’s customers started pushing agents into credit, procurement and supply chain workflows, the Commercial Graph that had reliably served nearly 200,000 customers globally became a problem. The systems built to serve human analysts were the wrong architecture for machines. So D&B rebuilt. “We need to think about agents as our new consumer category, evolving from our standard credit analysts or sales and marketing professionals, et cetera, to also now catering to these customers’ agents,” Gary Kotovets, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Dun & Bradstreet, told VentureBeat. What broke when agents started querying The Commercial Graph was not a single database. It was a collection of separate systems built for different use cases and different …

The modern data stack was built for humans asking questions. Google just rebuilt its for agents taking action.

The modern data stack was built for humans asking questions. Google just rebuilt its for agents taking action.

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Enterprise data stacks were built for humans running scheduled queries. As AI agents increasingly act autonomously on behalf of businesses around the clock, that architecture is breaking down — and vendors are racing to rebuild it. Google’s answer, announced at Cloud Next on Wednesday, is the Agentic Data Cloud. The architecture has three pillars: Knowledge Catalog. Automates semantic metadata curation, inferring business logic from query logs without manual data steward intervention Cross-cloud lakehouse. Lets BigQuery query Iceberg tables on AWS S3 via private network with no egress fees Data Agent Kit. Drops MCP tools into VS Code, Claude Code and Gemini CLI so data engineers describe outcomes rather than write pipelines “The data architecture has to change now,” Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Data Cloud at Google Cloud, told VentureBeat. “We’re moving from human scale to agent scale.” From system of intelligence to system of action The core premise behind Agentic Data Cloud is that enterprises are moving from human‑scale to agent‑scale operations. Historically, data platforms have been optimized for reporting, dashboarding, and some …

I stripped out my router’s built-in features and rebuilt them with Docker

I stripped out my router’s built-in features and rebuilt them with Docker

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Modern routers love to brag about ad blocking, smart DNS, traffic control, security layers, AI-this, and cloud-that. If I give it another firmware update, it’ll probably start offering life-coaching services. And for a while, I bought into all that. I let my router run most of my home network like some overconfident middle manager who just discovered dashboards. It “optimized traffic.” It “protected devices.” It made decisions I never explicitly asked for. It also randomly broke things: websites timing out for no reason, DNS slowing down like it needed a vape break, and devices behaving differently depending on what corner of the crib they were in, as if my Wi-Fi suddenly developed moods. Every time I opened the settings, everything looked fine. Because, of course, it did. That’s when I realized something slightly awkward. I had no idea what my own network was actually doing. So I did the only reasonable thing and turned all of it off. I stopped trusting my router When “it just works” slowly stops working Pankil Shah/MakeUseOf Credit: Pankil Shah/MakeUseOf It didn’t …