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1801.

AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: centers, data centers, emissions

1802.

‘The Ribbon Hero’ Is an Infectiously Hopeful Magical Girl Take on a Classic (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: anime, anime film, ass anime

1803.

Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Devindra Hardawar | tags: community, fitness, members

1804.

China's memory-making champion smashes DDR5-8800 barrier on AMD platform — CXMT chips close the gap with SK hynix (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: chipmaker, colorful, cxmt

1805.

Flock wanted to put license plate cameras on 350,000 Uber and Lyft dashcams (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Daniel Sims | tags: alprs, cameras, flock

1806.

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: byte, gateway, page

1807.

Apple weekend deals: AirPods Pro 3 25% off, MacBook Neo, Apple gift cards, iPhone Air, Apple TV, more (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Justin Kahn | tags: apple, apple watch, iphone

1808.

Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: atari, atari st, database

1809.

We tested the impact of SSD speed on gaming performance in 11 titles — we analyzed from SATA to PCIe 5.0 to see whether upgrading to a faster NVMe SSD would have an impact (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Dan Mateescu | tags: average, bandwidth, mb mb

1810.

Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: demand, electrical, grid

1811.

What’s the Difference Between Surveillance Pricing and Dynamic Pricing? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: avoid, avoid getting, getting

1812.

Philips Evnia 27M2N5500XD 1000Hz Review (techspot.com)

2026-08-08 | by Tim Schiesser | tags: mode, monitor, overdrive

1813.

How to Turn Your Favorite Pet Photos Into Cute iPhone Emoji in 4 Easy Steps (cnet.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | tags: apple, emoji, live

1814.

I gave my Samsung phone superpowers with a $6 pack of NFC tags — here’s how (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: android, apps, phone

1815.

Hugging Face hack marks start of dangerous AI cyber era and many firms 'don't even know it' (cnbc.com)

2026-08-08 | by Samantha Subin | tags: agents, cybersecurity, face

1816.

Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jorge Garay | tags: falcon, impact, korea

1817.

Nancy Guthrie: A Case of Bad Calls and Bad Luck (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-08 | tags: airfares, benefits, benefits small

1818.

Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: beaver, buc ee, nutterbutter

1819.

Intel's proposed orbital data centers would manage thousands of simple LEO satellites —two-tier network puts the brains of satellite constellations in higher orbit (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Etiido Uko | tags: centers, earth, ground

1820.

The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Luke Larsen | tags: display, inch, macbook

1821.

The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: curiosity, distance, mars

1822.

Big Walk, retro electronic repairs and other new indie games worth checking out (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Kris Holt | tags: august, game, games

1823.

Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jake Roach | tags: cycles, domas, hardware

1824.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: hurricane, jamaica, model

1825.

Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: billion, billion years, earth

1826.

8 free Android productivity apps I can’t live without in 2026 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: android, apps, free

1827.

NASA Figured Out How To Keep Its 48-Year-Old Voyager 2 Probe Running For Yet Another Year (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | tags: answer, answer phone, computers

1828.

Terafab could become the largest factory on the planet—or Elon Musk’s biggest failure (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: building, factory, million

1829.

‘If trust breaks, your business breaks’: How Alphonzo Terrell is building Spill to be a different kind of social platform (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: acquisition, acquisition led, alphonzo

1830.

Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: digital, ideas, love