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I really want a NAS, but it’s out of the question for me — here’s why (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: nas, cloud storage, google one

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The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro could get a hefty GPU upgrade to justify its high price (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: snapdragon 8 elite gen 6, qualcomm, weibo

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This Plant Has Been Hiding a Killer Secret. Darwin Called It 150 Years Ago (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: saxifraga, darwin, plants

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Why some people mow a lawn better than others (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by The Pudding | tags: coverage path planning, traveling salesman, optimal path

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George R.R. Martin Blogs a Melancholy Life Update (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: george r.r. martin, game of thrones, house of the dragon

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Kioxia and Sandisk demonstrate the world's highest-density 3D NAND flash — 332 active layers and up to 4,800 MT/s interface (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anton Shilov | tags: kioxia, sandisk, bics10

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A less powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip is now officially a thing (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: snapdragon 8 elite gen 5, qualcomm, redmi k100 pro

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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: airtable, bending spoons, howie liu

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Natural food dyes are winning the snack wars (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: natural food dyes, snack wars, food and beverages

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Michael Dell's son and a SpaceX alum want to put battery storage in every backyard (techspot.com)

2026-08-03 | by Daniel Sims | tags: dell, spacex, battery storage

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‘House of the Dragon’ Star Gayle Rankin on What It’s Like Being a Freaky Westeros Witch (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: house of the dragon, gayle rankin, harrenthal

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Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: int8 convrot, geforce rtx, comfyui

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This Week’s ‘House of the Dragon’ Is Stuffed Full of Beasts and Betrayals (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: house of the dragon, ormund hightower, season three

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Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-03 | by Kate Park | tags: horizon3, nodezero, nea

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Thanks, Qualcomm: This brand-new Android handheld is already getting a price hike (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: qualcomm, retroid, pocket nova

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Retroid Pocket Nova gets official Android 16-based LineageOS 23.2 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: retroid pocket nova, lineageos 23.2, android 16

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Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: nasdaq, citadel, stock market

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Stop graphing everything: When GraphRAG actually beats vector RAG (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: graphrag, retrieval-augmented generation, microsoft

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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Rolls for ‘Star Wars’ and ‘World of Warcraft’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: dungeons & dragons, star wars, world of warcraft

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The 5 laptop features worth spending extra on (and 3 that are mostly hype) (zdnet.com)

2026-08-01 | by Cesar Cadenas | tags: ram, asus zenbook, hp omnibook

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Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: rails, activestorage, libvips

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra vs. Galaxy Z Fold 6: One is better in every way that matters (zdnet.com)

2026-08-01 | by Adam Doud | tags: samsung galaxy z fold 8 ultra, samsung galaxy z fold 6, samsung unpacked 2026

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Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: prom chip, data storage, microscopic fuses

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Fintech broker Clear Street offers investors pre-IPO access to $188 billion AI giant Databricks (cnbc.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hugh Son | tags: clear street, databricks, ai software

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Who Will You Play in D&D’s New World of Warcraft and Star Wars Sets? CNET Answers (cnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by David Lumb | tags: dungeons & dragons, wizards of the coast, world of warcraft

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Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: postgres, planetscale, wal replay

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Qualcomm-powered robot collapses spectacularly on stage during company's keynote — prepared stagehands rush to cloak and then carry off stricken humanoid (updated) (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Mark Tyson | tags: qualcomm, neura robotics, dragonwing iq10

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Qualcomm's humanoid robot demo went hilariously wrong when the machine just dropped dead on stage (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Rob Thubron | tags: qualcomm, neura robotics, dragonwing iq10

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Qualcomm-powered humanoid robot collapses on stage like it was shot during live demo (techspot.com)

2026-07-31 | by Rob Thubron | tags: qualcomm, neura robotics, dragonwing iq10

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D&D is getting World of Warcraft and Star Wars crossovers (theverge.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: dungeons & dragons, world of warcraft, blizzard