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The next great moonshots won’t come from Silicon Valley alone (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: alphabet, moonshot factory, sergey brin

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‘All You Have to Do Is Be Bought’: A SpaceX-Tesla Merger Could Be Musk’s $1 Trillion Payout Cheat Code (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: spacex, tesla, musk

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I’ve used NAS drives for years. These are the top 5 brands in 2026 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: synology, nas drives, android authority

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Laser wireless charging could keep drones airborne indefinitely — improved receiver converts at 38.49% efficiency and uses nanocrystalline material for thermals (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: laser wireless charging, civil aviation university of china, perovskite laser cell

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This super-white coating was inspired by a beetle’s scales (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: super-white coating, beetle’s scales, cellulose

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Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jill Lepore | tags: elon musk, sam altman, artificial intelligence

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Walmart has slashed $600 off this RTX 5060-powered gaming laptop, now just $1,099 — get Gigabyte's 16-inch Aero X16 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5060, amd ryzen ai 7

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Panic of 1873 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: deutsche bank, vienna stock exchange, german unification

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Modders are trying to bring Game Pass and Xbox games to Mac and Linux (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Daniel Sims | tags: xbox store, game pass, heroic games launcher

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Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon web services, ai data center, pecos county

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Nvidia's Risky Business (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: nvidia, northern pacific railway, jay cooke

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Disney’s next streaming bet depends on creators. Will it pay them? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: disney+, vert, tiktok

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Apple @ Work Podcast: 300 devices later – thoughts on ChromeOS vs macOS (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-11 | by Bradley C | tags: chromeos, macos, mosyle

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Meet 21 Black women who bounced back and are thriving after being pushed out of the workplace (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: black women, job market, unemployment

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I combined my Fitbit Air with an analog watch — it’s the only way I wear the tracker now (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: fitbit air, google, android authority

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Best robot mowers of 2026: Expert tested (zdnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Maria Diaz | tags: robot mowers, zdnet, vendor listings

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The Very Cool New Ad-Skipping Button for Spotify Podcasts Is Not Very Cool for Podcast Businesspeople (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: spotify, podcast, ad-skipping

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Gamer recruitment drive results in ‘supercharged’ hiring campaign for new Air Traffic Controllers — 94% hiring goal hit in record time with $155,000 salary potential; ‘the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mark Tyson | tags: air traffic control, usdot, faa

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You can see both a partial solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower peak on the same day this week. Here’s when to look up (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: solar eclipse, perseid meteor shower, u.s.

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Celebrating the 90th birthday of the Wienermobile, the original marketing stunt (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: wienermobile, oscar mayer, hotdoggers

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Seedless Blackberries and Cherries That Grow on Bushes Vie to Be the Future of Food (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mike Grunwald | tags: pairwise, crispr, genomics

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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Claire L. Evans | tags: organoids, johns hopkins, biocomputing

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More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Osmond Chia | tags: truth social, trump media, cryptocurrencies

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Acer’s first Googlebook could steer clear of budget Chromebook mistakes (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: googlebook, acer, intel core ultra

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Google is testing a new homepage that buries the search button for AI (techspot.com)

2026-08-11 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: google, gemini, ai mode

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OpenAI gives Daybreak partners access to a more powerful cybersecurity model (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Mariella Moon | tags: openai, daybreak, gpt-5.6

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London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: london underground, facial recognition, passenger scanning

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A New Rumor Says Dean Devlin Chatted With David Tennant About a Return to ‘Doctor Who’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: dean devlin, david tennant, doctor who

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Best Red-Light Therapy for Hair Growth and Restoration (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: red-light therapy, hair loss, lllt

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7 simple gadgets that can make your home smarter for under $100 (zdnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Kayla Solino | tags: smart home, under $100, zdnet