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WWE Videos Made by a Glitching AI That Sounds Like It’s Being Strangled Are the Future of Entertainment
It sounds awful. I can't stop listening.
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Scorpions Are Literally Metal, Study Reveals
Many scorpion species carry zinc and other heavy metals in their pincers and stingers, according to new research.
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Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on Why He Wanted to Make ‘Wonder Man’ One of Marvel’s Best
The Emmy and Tony-winning actor explains his decision to spend his 'Marvel dollar' on the Disney+ series.
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“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
It started with word, cave, and storytelling, A line scratched on stone walls: “Meet me when the young moon rises.” The first protocol for connection. Coyote tales, forbidden scripts, Medieval texts hidden from flame. What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics II? Was it God who laug…
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Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.
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People who keep apologising for things that aren’t their fault aren’t being humble. They learned that getting in front of blame was faster than waiting to find out whether it was coming
Chronic pre-emptive apologising looks like politeness but functions as threat management — a small payment offered up front to head off blame that, in childhood, often did arrive. Here's what the research says, and what actually helps.
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I’m 38 and I noticed last week that I have been waiting for someone to tell me I’m allowed to rest, and the person I have been waiting for is me, and I have apparently been holding out on myself for about twenty years
Most rest discourse assumes the problem is time management. For a specific kind of high-functioning adult, it isn't. It's authorisation — and the person you've been waiting on to grant it is yourself.
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At some point, every parent who set out to do it differently from their own parents has to sit with the discovery that doing it differently doesn’t mean doing it without harm — it just means producing a different set of things their children will eventually need to work through, and that humility is the beginning of an honest conversation with the next generation
The moment you realize your carefully crafted approach to avoid your parents' mistakes has simply created a different set of wounds for the next generation to heal is when real growth begins.
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DeepSeek mystery: who is speaking for start-up as CEO Liang Wenfeng remains out of sight?
The potential emergence of a new DeepSeek spokesman has sparked intrigue as speculation over the whereabouts of founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng continues, more than a year after his last public appearance. While the Hangzhou start-up’s latest V4 model did not make the same waves as…
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Spinny Ropes In Investment Bankers For A Potential IPO Next Year: Report
Used car marketplace Spinny is looking to go public within the first quarter of 2027, as per a report by…
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OpenAI integrates frontier models, Codex, and AI agents into AWS through Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI is expanding its enterprise reach by bringing its advanced AI models,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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How Amazon Uses LLMs to Recommend Products
In this article, we will look at how COSMO works and the challenges the engineering team faced.
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2026 Green Powered Challenge: Supercapacitor Enables High-Power IoT
With all the battery technologies and modern low-current sleep modes in most microcontrollers, running a sensor and microcontroller combo off-grid and far away from any infrastructure is usually not too …read more
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Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579 Points: 1815 # Comments: 573
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Can you 3D Print a Pinball Machine That’s Fun to Play?
It seems fair to say that pinball machines are among the most universally loved gaming systems known today, yet the full-sized ones are both very expensive and very large, while …read more
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Recycling PLA and Other Plastic Waste with Compression Molding
After previously trying out low-tech compression molding with a toaster oven and 3D printed molds, [future things] is back with a video that seeks to explore some of the questions …read more
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Warp is now open-source
Article URL: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937349 Points: 229 # Comments: 151
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Waymo in Portland
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/waymo-in-portland/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938184 Points: 255 # Comments: 414
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Payphone Tag Is Australia’s New National Sport
Australia’s payphones are an iconic part of the national landscape, even if they’re not as important as they once used to be. However, they’re having a resurgence of late, in …read more
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How Stripe Detects Fraudulent Transactions Within 100 ms
In this article, we will look at how Stripe’s Radar does this effectively and the architectural decisions the team took while building it.
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