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All the New Books and Manga Announced by Kodansha at Anime Expo 2026
There's a new 'Witch Hat Atelier' story collection to tide you over until the anime's second season.
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‘Mob Psycho 100’ Crew Reflect on the Make‑or‑Break Journey of the Decade‑Defining Anime
For director Yuzuru Tachikawa and Mob and Reigen Japanese voice actors Setsuo Ito and Takahiro Sakurai, 'Mob Psycho 100' didn't start out as sure bet, but its resonance with fans all these years later made the anime's hard-fought battle to exist worth it.
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What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
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‘E.T.’ Is Getting a Lego to Light Up Your Life
If you love aliens and the 80s, Lego has a new 'E.T.' set that combines the best of both worlds.
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Uber’s European expansion plans may have hit a speed bump
Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now five of those launches are reportedly on hold.
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Grim New Details From the Life of the Plaintiff in Social Media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Case
The anonymous social media addiction lawsuit plaintiff known as “K.G.M.” has stepped out of the shadows.
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Psychology says people who feel emotionally lighter within minutes of arriving at the ocean aren’t imagining it — studies show that simply looking at water can lower blood pressure and slow the heart rate in less than two minutes, before a single wave has been heard.
There is a particular feeling that arrives before the holiday has properly started. You step out of the car near the ocean, or reach the end of a street where the water suddenly opens in front of you, and your body seems to loosen before your mind has built an explanation. It can…
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Tsinghua Special Scholarship Winner Gu Yuxian Joins DeepSeek Ahead of V4 Launch
Tsinghua PhD Gu Yuxian, a special scholarship recipient with nearly 5,000 citations, joins DeepSeek as its V4 official version prepares for mid-July release.
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In 2010, a Brigham Young University psychologist named Julianne Holt-Lunstad analyzed 148 separate studies of 300,000 people to compare the mortality risks of various lifestyle factors — and found that chronic loneliness increases a person’s risk of dying early by the same amount as smoking 15 cigarettes a day
In July 2010, three American psychology researchers — Julianne Holt-Lunstad and Timothy B. Smith of the Brigham Young University Department of Psychology in Provo, Utah, and J. Bradley Layton of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Epidemiology — publishe…
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Carl Jung argued we spend the first half of life building a mask and the second deciding what to do with it — whether we keep performing the role we polished for the world, or begin the harder work of integrating the parts it left out
Carl Jung split a human life down the middle and gave each half a different job. The first half, he said, is spent building something the world can see: a role, a reputation, a face that fits. The second half is spent deciding what to do with all of it. Do you keep playing the ..…
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In 1979, a Harvard psychologist named Ellen Langer took eight men in their late 70s to a retreat house redecorated exactly like 1959 — old magazines, radio broadcasts, and furniture — and asked them to live as their younger selves for a week, and by the end their eyesight, hearing, memory, and grip strength had measurably improved
In September 1979, at an old converted Catholic monastery in the wooded countryside of Peterborough, New Hampshire — approximately 90 kilometres northwest of Boston, and approximately six months before Ellen Jane Langer would become, in the specific spring of 1981, the first fema…
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When Huawei's Sports Algorithm License Was Revoked: How a Five-Person Cross-Border Team Built a Replacement in 8 Months
Huawei's wearable sports algorithm was cut off in 2020. A five-person cross-border team rebuilt it from scratch in 8 months, creating the TruSport system now powering millions of devices.
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EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-Control-1-0-EU-Council-forces-messenger-scans-via-fast-track-11353659.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793393 Points: 380 # Comments: 211
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Hackaday Links: July 5, 2026
Happy belated July 4th to all the readers from the United States — hopefully you aren’t reading this from a hospital bed after losing a hand or burning off your …read more
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Old Midi Instruments Don’t Like Modern Midi. What’s To Be Done?
In theory, MIDI is an electrical and protocol standard that allows any such equipped instrument or computer to talk to any other. But as the wonderfully named [Knob Monster] will …read more
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It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Article URL: https://popcar.bearblog.dev/its-about-ownership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794750 Points: 282 # Comments: 215
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Organic Maps
Article URL: https://organicmaps.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446 Points: 767 # Comments: 216
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Demonstrating LFP Battery Safety in Case of BMS Failure
Generally, LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are quite safe and stable, but it’s still possible for something to go wrong, even something catastrophic, like the battery management system (BMS) developing a direct …read more
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Seeing Bacteria, Nanoprisms, and More with an Atomic Force Microscope
Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image their subjects. Instead, they physically detect the subject’s surface with a …read more
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2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: A 3D-Printed Raman Spectrometer
When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their energy to raising the vibrational energy of …read more
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OpenPrinter
Article URL: https://www.opentools.studio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797916 Points: 270 # Comments: 72
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