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Microscopes can clearly see the video on the surface of a CED 'LaserDisc,' discovers Techtuber — a 12-inch vinyl-like disc that stores SD analog video (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-15 | by Mark Tyson | get Digital Microscope Kit → | tags: ced, laserdisc, andonstar

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Brandon Sanderson Explains Why He Doesn’t Write About Elves or Dwarves (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-13 | tags: brandon sanderson, elves, dwarves

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Ford's upcoming $30,000 EV truck leans on efficiency instead of a massive battery pack (techspot.com)

2026-02-18 | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: abandons, abandons compromises, advanced

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After Ring privacy backlash, company abandons plans for police partnership (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-16 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Smartwatch → | tags: abandoned, flock, integration

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AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs (futurism.com)

2026-02-15 | by Victor Tangermann | get Smart Machines → | tags: andon, anthropic, claude

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Vending Machine Run by Claude More of a Disaster Than Previously Known (futurism.com)

2026-02-12 | by Frank Landymore | get Vending Machine → | tags: andon, anthropic, claude

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The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-09 | get Container Crane → | tags: abandoned, abandoned shipowner, contractual

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How coal mine waste could power America’s next clean energy movement (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-25 | get Solar Power → | tags: abandoned coal, acid, acid drainage

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Elon Musk says OpenAI and Microsoft owe him $134 billion in "wrongful gains" (techspot.com)

2026-01-19 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: abandoning, abandoning founding, accuses

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Digg Relaunches From the Grave With Some ‘AI Enhancements’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-15 | get Digi → | tags: abandoned, abandoned kicked, arrived

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I asked ChatGPT to help me come up with killer New Year’s resolutions. Here’s what happened (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-08 | get Language Model → | tags: abandoned, abandoned february, americans

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We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-07 | get Stack Overflow → | tags: abandon, overflow, place

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How Lego designed its new interactive Smart Brick (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-06 | get Smart Brick → | tags: abandoning, age abandoning, analog

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Tesla Is No Longer the World's Top EV Seller After Q4 Sales Fall (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-02 | get Electric Vehicle → | tags: abandoned, million, percent

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New Year’s resolutions for the overcommitted (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-31 | get Digital calendar → | tags: abandoned, ambitious, approach

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New York's MetroCard Era Ends After 31 Years (slashdot.org)

2025-12-30 | by Posted | get Smart Card → | tags: abandon, abandon desktop, brooks

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The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work (slashdot.org)

2025-12-30 | by Posted | get Machine Learning → | tags: abandon, abandon desktop, brooks

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Starbucks Is Abandoning Its City Saturation Strategy — And Closing Hundreds of Stores (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-30 | get Coffee → | tags: abandoning, amid, city

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Europe's Public Institutions Are Quietly Ditching US Cloud Providers (slashdot.org)

2025-12-23 | by Posted | get Cloud providers → | tags: abandon, cloud, european

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Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-17 | get Twitter → | tags: abandoned, bluebird, corp

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Elon Musk Abandoned the Name ‘Twitter,’ This Startup Wants to Claim it (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-11 | get Instagram → | tags: abandoned, abandoned twitter, claim

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Meet the private space company building satellites—cheaper, faster, and better—in an old San Francisco shipyard (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-10 | get Satellite → | tags: abandoned, abandoned complex, iron

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31 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in December (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-01 | get Ender's Game → | tags: annalee, annalee newitz, arrive

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Nexperia and Wingtech feud escalates, raising new fears of global chip disruptions (techspot.com)

2025-12-01 | get Nexperia → | tags: abandon, abandon improper, attempt nexperia

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Australia Spent $62 Million To Update Its Weather Web Site and Made It Worse (slashdot.org)

2025-11-27 | by Posted | get Weather site → | tags: abandon, abandon desktop, brooks

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What if your next personal trainer were an AI agent? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-11-19 | get Personal Trainer → | tags: abandon, americans, americans poured

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Bypassing the Branch Predictor (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-16 | get Predictor → | tags: abandon, branch, branch predictor

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Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World (futurism.com)

2025-11-07 | by Victor Tangermann | get Robot Vacuum → | tags: andon, andon labs, bench

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LLMs tried to run a robot in the real world – it didn't go well (techspot.com)

2025-11-03 | get Language Model → | tags: act decision, andon, andon labs

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Stressed-out AI-powered robot vacuum cleaner goes into meltdown during simple butter delivery experiment — ‘I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave...’ (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-03 | by Mark Tyson | get Robot Vacuum Cleaner → | tags: andon, andon labs, butter