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New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: callers, calls, emergency

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Google is making it easier to add new sources to Gemini Notebook (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: add source, change, gemini

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America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test (slashdot.org)

2026-08-08 | by Posted | tags: battery, energy, grid

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Pocket Jam’ helps you learn and practice your favorite songs (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, pocket, pocket jam

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Google Photos users report handy drag-to-select feature has disappeared (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: drag, feature, google

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‘Our Retribution Tour’: A Crypto-Inspired Green Energy PAC Is Reportedly Collecting One Republican Scalp After Another (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: like pac, like renewables, pac ads

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TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: game, mode, mouse

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The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: century, light, light possible

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Tyler August | tags: apple, dell, efficiency

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Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: bots, digiday, google

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The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a lot of fun, but it’s not a must-have (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Aisha Malik | tags: device, kindle, kindle scribe

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Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Manuviraj Godara | tags: added, answer, anthropic

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Apple TV welcomes back Ted Lasso with a clever new commercial (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Benjamin Mayo | tags: apple, lasso, season

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Robot Dogs Suddenly Taking Jobs From Human Security Guards (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: deployed, guards, human

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Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | tags: google, group, groups

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Your phone's USB-C port does a lot more than just charge - Here's what else it can do (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anna Washenko | tags: able use, adapter, convenient

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Here’s why Apple is skipping its M6 Pro and M6 Max chips to accelerate M7 launch (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, chip, neural

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Save $160 off AMD's ultimate gaming CPU combo, includes motherboard and chip cooler — $458 combo features Ryzen 7 9800X3D, B850 motherboard, and a 240mm liquid AIO (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: bundle, deals, gaming

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Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: bots, human, reddit

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Apple @ Work: What IDC’s latest shipments mean for the MacBook Neo and Air in the enterprise (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Bradley C | tags: apple, enterprise, macbook

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The Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn't realize existed (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Deven Mcclure | tags: apple, heart, rate

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A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: domain, example, example com

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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‘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

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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

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Simon Willison | tags: agent, agents, artifactory