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We’re Nowhere Near Ready to Make Babies in Space, Experts Warn (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-04 | get Spacecraft → | tags: colonize, colonize space, figure

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Daily briefing: More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-04 | by Graham | get Cancer prevention drug → | tags: cancer, min read, nature

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Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-04 | by Cheng | get Nanopore sequencing → | tags: assembly, error, hifiasm

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AMD reveals next-gen Xbox could launch in 2027 — CEO says semi-custom SoC ready to 'support launch in 2027' (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Jake Roach | get GPU → | tags: gen xbox, launch, microsoft

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Google Meet’s universal translator looks like it’s getting ready to go mobile (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-03 | get Language Translate → | tags: android, google, meet

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Show HN: I built "AI Wattpad" to eval LLMs on fiction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | get Text Generator → | tags: actually, actually readers, ai models

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Survey confirms: Our readers know what to do when faced with a phone fire (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-03 | get Phone → | tags: best, getting, going

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The 10 most popular products ZDNET readers bought last month (zdnet.com)

2026-02-03 | by Kayla Solino | get Smartphones → | tags: affect, does, does affect

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xAI launches Grok Imagine 1.0 with 10-second 720p video generation – here's what it looks like (techspot.com)

2026-02-03 | get Grok → | tags: advancements, advancements read, announced

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The Switch overtakes the DS to become Nintendo's best-selling console ever (techspot.com)

2026-02-03 | get Nintendo Switch → | tags: december, december read, ended

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The Switch overtakes DS to become Nintendo's best-selling console ever (techspot.com)

2026-02-03 | get Nintendo Switch → | tags: december, december read, ended

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Daily briefing: What people with no ‘mind’s eye’ can tell us about consciousness (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-03 | by Smith | get Neuroscience → | tags: mental, min read, nature

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ChatGPT-4o Fans, Get Ready to Say Goodbye: OpenAI Will Soon Retire Several Models (cnet.com)

2026-02-02 | by See Full Bio | get Chatbot → | tags: chatgpt, gpt gpt, models

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Docusign’s CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts (theverge.com)

2026-02-02 | by Nilay Patel | get Docusign → | tags: agreements, docusign, going

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Former Google engineer convicted of trade secret theft and China-linked economic espionage (techspot.com)

2026-02-02 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: access, access google, account

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Former Google engineer convicted of AI trade secret theft and China-linked economic espionage (techspot.com)

2026-02-02 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: access, access google, account

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Daily briefing: Scientists delve into the smells of history (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-02 | by Graham | get Scent markers → | tags: min read, nature, nature min

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OpenAI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-02 | by Gibney | get Neuralink → | tags: activity, brain, devices

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Engineers just found a way to cool quantum systems using microwave noise (techspot.com)

2026-02-01 | get Quantum cooler → | tags: chalmers, chalmers team, circuits

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English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-01 | get Textbook → | tags: copies, copies readings, double

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Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-01 | by Mark Tyson | get Magnetic Core Memory → | tags: core, core memory, magnetic

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How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-01 | by Ashish Pratap Singh | get E-commerce Platform → | tags: cache, database, read

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This tiny pocket-friendly e-reader is packed with frustration and potential (theverge.com)

2026-02-01 | by Andrew Liszewski | get E-reader → | tags: button, buttons, kobo

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Apple's New Lip-Reading Tech Is a Weird Signal of Where We're Heading (cnet.com)

2026-01-31 | by See Full Bio | get Smart Speaker → | tags: apple, glasses, vision

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Microdosing For Depression Appears To Work About As Well As Drinking Coffee (slashdot.org)

2026-01-31 | get Nootropics → | tags: anonymous, anonymous reader, clinical

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Ready to Ditch TikTok? Check Out These 9 Apps for Short-Form Video Alternatives (cnet.com)

2026-01-31 | by See Full Bio | get Short-form video → | tags: instagram, reels, skylight

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UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding (slashdot.org)

2026-01-31 | get Electric Train → | tags: certainly, certainly disappoint, disappoint

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One-Third of US Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals (slashdot.org)

2026-01-30 | by Posted | get Gaming console → | tags: ai harming, ai use, anonymous

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At Age 25, Wikipedia Refuses to Evolve (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-01-30 | by Dariusz Jemielniak | get Wikipedia Editor → | tags: community, editors, encyclopedia

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The Download: US immigration agencies’ AI videos, and inside the Vitalism movement (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-30 | by Rhiannon Williams | get Virtual Assistant → | tags: movement, philosophy, progress