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A Volcano Toasted This Scroll 2,000 Years Ago. Here’s How Scientists Read It Without Ever Opening It (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-22 | tags: herculaneum scroll, vesuvius, ai decipherment

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Bought an iPhone 2 years ago? Don’t forget to claim your piece of Apple’s settlement (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-21 | tags: apple settlement, siri, apple intelligence

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I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-19 | tags: non-autoregressive models, reinforcement learning, laya

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Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-18 | by Hugues Plisson | tags: obi-rakhmat, uzbekistan, neanderthals

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A Woman Ruled Ancient Egypt as King 5,000 Years Ago, Research Claims (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: ancient egypt, first dynasty, neithhotep

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Kids of 2026 Make Futuristic Predictions That Are Very Similar to the Kids of 50 Years Ago (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-15 | get eufy robot vacuum self-empty → | tags: robot butlers, futuristic predictions, kids predictions

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He Took a Part-Time Job at McDonald’s 50 Years Ago. Now He Owns Six of Them: ‘I Never Could Have Imagined the Journey Ahead of Me’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-10 | by Jon Small | get Grinding It Out Ray Kroc book → | tags: mcdonald's, terry eagle, franchising

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Charlie Kirk Was Shot a Year Ago. The Conspiracy Theories Are More Rampant Than Ever (wired.com)

2026-09-10 | by David Gilbert | tags: charlie kirk, conspiracy theories, candace owens

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Luma, a Life-Sciences Investor, Debuts a $410 Million Fund (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-10 | get Oura Ring 4 smart ring → | tags: luma, life sciences, venture capital

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Apple’s new CEO is reviving a Steve Jobs strategy from 25 years ago (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-09 | by Tim De Chant | get Apple iPhone 17 Pro → | tags: apple, john ternus, iphone

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iPhone 18 Pro series is here with a feature Android flagships abandoned years ago (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-09 | get Apple iPhone 17 Pro → | tags: iphone 18 pro, apple, variable aperture

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This $502 4TB Crucial T705 is the cheapest Gen 5 SSD you can buy right now for just 12.5 cents per GB — ultra-fast storage upgrade with unreal 14,500 MB/s speeds is $181 less than a month ago, hitting its lowest price since February (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-09 | by Ben Stockton | get Crucial T705 4TB Gen 5 SSD → | tags: crucial t705, pcie 5.0, ssd prices

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Google Chrome just gave its Gemini side panel a feature it should’ve had years ago (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-03 | get Google Pixel Tablet → | tags: google chrome, gemini side panel, google discover

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Taco Bell Abandoned This Market 14 Years Ago — Here’s Why It’s Going Back Now (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-02 | by Jon Small | get Taco Bell taco seasoning mix → | tags: taco bell, americana restaurants, united arab emirates

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This is what a supercar was like a century ago (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-01 | get Bentley cars history book → | tags: bentley, supersports, laguna seca

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20 Years Ago, BlackBerry Ruled the Smartphone Market. Now It’s Depending on a $950 Million Product That Has Nothing to Do With Phones. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-31 | by Sherin Shibu | get Clicks keyboard case iPhone → | tags: blackberry, qnx, secusuite

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7 Things AI Can Now Do for Your One-Person Business it Couldn’t 2 Weeks Ago (No Staff, No Code) (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-29 | by Mackenzie Truman | get Logitech MX Master 3S wireless mouse → | tags: openai, microsoft, chatgpt

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Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-27 | get Guittard Cocoa Rouge unsweetened cocoa powder → | tags: theobroma cacao, mississippian culture, etowah archaeological site

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'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago - and almost called it Freax (zdnet.com)

2026-08-25 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | get Raspberry Pi 5 8GB board → | tags: linux, linus torvalds, minix

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Valve was founded 30 years ago today — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-24 | by Mark Tyson | get Steam Deck OLED handheld gaming console → | tags: valve, half-life, steam

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The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago (2018) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-23 | by Rhett A. Butler | get National Geographic Atlas of the World → | tags: nature, satellite data, university of maryland

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I canceled Netflix a year ago — here’s the unexpected alternative I finally stuck with (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-23 | get Apple TV 4K → | tags: netflix, apple tv, ted lasso

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The world's first webcam was switched off 25 years ago today — 128x128 grayscale feed predated the World Wide Web to monitor a Cambridge coffee pot (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-23 | by Mark Tyson | get Logitech C920x HD Pro Webcam → | tags: cambridge university, trojan room coffee pot, acorn archimedes

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Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-23 | get Ledger Nano X crypto hardware wallet → | tags: crypto, missing persons, blockchain

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Stripe says the "singularity" began eight months ago, makes $7.5 billion AI bet (techspot.com)

2026-08-20 | by Rob Thubron | tags: stripe, artificial intelligence, openai

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Stripe says the singularity began eight months ago as it makes a $7.5 billion AI bet (techspot.com)

2026-08-20 | by Rob Thubron | tags: stripe, artificial intelligence, openai

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Intel's Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU is now up to 48% more expensive than it was just a month ago — 32GB Battlemage workstation card climbs toward $2,000 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: intel arc pro b70, battlemage, asrock creator

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Google quietly resurrects a Pixel gesture we first spotted over a year ago (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: pixel, android 17, google

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Daily briefing: Narcolepsy drug could kick off an Ozempic-style moment for the brain (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-17 | by Graham | tags: orexin agonists, orzeyful, glp-1 receptor

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The PC age began 45 years ago with the breakthrough Intel 8088 processor — 8-bit bus fueled 45 years of x86 dominance (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Mark Tyson | tags: intel 8088, ibm pc 5150, x86 architecture