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‘The Wizard’ Made Me Long for a Wearable Future
The Power Glove really did a number on me.
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Tom Holland: Sony ‘Never Found the Right Time’ for a Spider-Man/Venom Crossover
In a new interview, Holland explains why the crossover never happened, despite both franchises setting it up.
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Rogue Amoeba: Unobtrusive Update Notifications
Paul Kafasis, on the Rogue Amoeba blog back in April: Though Sparkle serves us very well, it has one notable downside. Update announcements are most likely to appear at the least convenient time: right after you’ve launched the app. You want to start recording with Audio Hijack, …
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Detect Dark Matter’s Mark From Your Backyard
If you’re wondering what dark matter is, you’re not alone. Astronomers don’t know. But they’ve determined that this invisible material must be far more abundant than the stars and nebulas that they can see. They’ve surmised as much from observing the gravitational effects of all …
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Founder Traits And One Big AI Test: How Former NEA Partner Vanessa Larco Picks Winners
Crunchbase News talks with former NEA partner Vanessa Larco about how she evaluates startups based on founder potential rather than initial ideas and how she looks for teams that leverage AI to make products dramatically faster, cheaper, or easier to use.
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Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host
Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.
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ByteDance Seedance 2.5 Released: 30-Second Single-Generation Video With Breakthrough Long-Narrative Capability, Multi-Modal Reference, and Precise Editing
ByteDance Seed team launches Seedance 2.5 with 30s single generation, multi-round extension, 30 images plus 10 videos plus 10 audio references, and timestamp-controlled editing.
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Research suggests that planning on paper and planning through a phone can engage the mind differently: paper may encourage a broader, internally organised view of the day, while apps make it easier to rely on external reminders and prompts.
The tools we use to organize our days may be quietly reshaping how we think about time itself.
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US scientist Elsa Reichmanis defends global collaboration amid scrutiny of science exchange
American materials scientist Elsa Reichmanis, whose pioneering work helped lay part of the foundation for modern semiconductor manufacturing, said scientific collaboration should transcend rivalry after receiving one of China’s highest honours for foreign experts, describing scie…
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DeepSeek puts V4-Flash API into public beta
DeepSeek has put the formal version of its V4-Flash API into public beta, with an upgrade focused on agent tasks. The company says the model scored 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 54.4 on DeepSWE, among other benchmarks. The release adds support for the Responses API and is adapte…
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When GPU Goes to the Physical World, Tianjin Gets a Domestic GPU: Suxian Micro Releases TUCA Unified Computing Architecture and Tianheng GPGPU for Embodied Intelligence
Suxian Micro launches TH1100 GPGPU with 100T computing power for embodied AI, featuring in-chip compute-storage fusion and AI ROM technology, with a render-first-then-AI development logic.
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Quote by Anne Lamott: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you
Anne Lamott's famous line about unplugging is really a diagnosis of modern exhaustion. The research on digital detox, burnout, and cognitive overload suggests she was right — and that the threshold for recovery is lower than most people think.
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IEEE Publishing Ethics Team Upholds Research Integrity
Given a rising number of publishing misconduct allegations, IEEE in 2022 created the Publishing Ethics Team as a centralized department to assist in handling claims. The group also works to increase the organization’s visibility in the broader publishing ethics area and helps IEE…
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Looking for the Catch in Apple Upgrade
Damon Beres, writing for The Atlantic under the hed/subhed: “The New iPhone Underclass: Apple’s rental program is a trap”: The Klarna plan — “Apple Upgrade,” which replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program — is truly, legally, a lease. This is confusing! And it’s confusing in part beca…
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Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When Brody was around two …
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Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
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Custom Beach Robot Handles the Hard Work
A day at the beach can involve hauling a surprising amount of gear, from coolers, towels, blankets, chairs, and umbrellas, and if children are involved the amount of beach stuff …read more
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Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
Article URL: https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114639 Points: 305 # Comments: 112
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I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
Article URL: https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116721 Points: 217 # Comments: 97
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Best-Ever Brainstem Map Created by Indian Scientists
The elusive brainstem is a small, yet critical part of our brain: the slightest damage to it could prove fatal. But how it works is not fully understood today. Indian …read more
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Rebuilding an Obsolete IC to Save a Betacam SP Tapedeck
Betacam is not the Betamax you may have had at home– it was a professional format that lived on into the 21st century, in the “SP” form. In many places, …read more
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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The AI Aesthetic
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099 Points: 316 # Comments: 140
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The session you cannot take with you
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118781 Points: 417 # Comments: 102
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