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1411.

PCjs Machines (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: pcjs, ibm pc, visicalc

1412.

Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | by Bret Devereaux | tags: age of empires, relic entertainment, civilization series

1413.

A Fighter Jet That Takes Off Without a Runway Is One Step Closer to Vertical Takeoff (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: x-bat, ai-piloted, supersonic jet

1414.

Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors on barges (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-21 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: bluecore energy, small modular reactors, subsea cables

1415.

PartialString – A finite-difference time-domain physical modelling synthesiser (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: fdtd, partialstring, plucked string

1416.

New Cooling Tech Could Pave the Way for Longer Smart Glasses Recording (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: xmems, microfan, ar glasses

1417.

These camera-free smart glasses want to give you a secret advantage in meetings (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: halliday g2, micro-led projectors, binocular waveguide

1418.

Intel's foundry lands first named customer under CEO Lip-Bu Tan, as Fortinet signs on for security chips (cnbc.com)

2026-07-21 | by Kif Leswing | tags: intel, fortinet, intel 4

1419.

Intel to co-develop and manufacture Fortinet's next-gen firewall ASIC on Intel 4 — node gets its first named external customer (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Luke James | tags: intel, fortinet, fortigate

1420.

How do you bounce back from making the worst smart glasses of 2025? (engadget.com)

2026-07-21 | by Daniel Cooper | tags: smart glasses, digiwindow, waveguides

1421.

xMEMS unveils super tiny cooling fan that fits inside smart glasses (engadget.com)

2026-07-21 | by Gabriela Vătu | tags: xmems, xmc-1200, astra2

1422.

This Wearable Aims to Improve Your Blood Pressure. It’s Now in the US, and I Got a First Look (cnet.com)

2026-07-21 | by Giselle Castro-Sloboda | tags: aktiia, hilo core, wearable blood pressure

1423.

Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera (wired.com)

2026-07-21 | by Boone Ashworth | tags: smart glasses, halliday g2, meta ray-ban

1424.

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge (theverge.com)

2026-07-21 | by Emma Roth | tags: anthropic, ai models, copyright lawsuits

1425.

We’re Admittedly Terrified That They’ve Now Invented Invisible Drones (futurism.com)

2026-07-21 | by Frank Landymore | tags: invisible drone, northwestern university, phantom twist

1426.

A Dyslexic High School Dropout Tackled the Massive Problem of Online Returns. This Year, His Business Will Make Over $500 Million. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-21 | by Liz Brody | tags: nintendo switch, online returns, walmart

1427.

The Personnel Decision Every Founder Dreads — “I Knew For Almost a Year Before I Acted” (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-21 | by Frances Dodds | tags: cofounder, remote, ritual

1428.

HBO Max and Paramount+ may not merge after all (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-21 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: hbo max, paramount plus, warner bros discovery

1429.

Scientists Believed This Near-Earth Object Was an Asteroid for 28 Years. They Were Wrong (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: near-earth object, 1998 sh2, asteroid

1430.

MLB Bans Hitters From Consulting AI Chatbots Before Going Up to Bat (futurism.com)

2026-07-21 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: mlb, ai chatbots, dugout ipads

1431.

The Light Flip is a minimalist flip phone with a point to prove (theverge.com)

2026-07-21 | by David Pierce | tags: light phone, flip phone, mediatek

1432.

Abdul El-Sayed Is an Epidemiologist Running for Senate. His State Is a Public Health Disaster (wired.com)

2026-07-21 | by Molly Taft | tags: public health, cyclosporiasis, detroit

1433.

NAND shortages could finally ease in 2027, but ADATA warns the DRAM crisis may last another 10 years (techspot.com)

2026-07-21 | by Rob Thubron | tags: nand flash, adata, drama shortages

1434.

‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech (wired.com)

2026-07-21 | by Katie Drummond | tags: google, sundar pichai, stanford university

1435.

PC modder bolts 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink to RTX 4060 — convection-only cooling seems to work fine in a testbench-style installation (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nvidia, rtx 4060, palit

1436.

Want to live forever? There’s a house for that (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: kas bordier, over-optimization, smart home

1437.

Restaurant in Major Trouble After Posting AI Pictures of “Its Food” (futurism.com)

2026-07-21 | by Frank Landymore | tags: ai-generated images, food advertising, san francisco

1438.

$399 Nintendo Switch 2 back in stock Woot for new customers, $427 for returning customers with code — get $100 off the most recent price hikes (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: nintendo switch 2, woot, joy-con

1439.

If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably an AI Bot (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: webpages, ai-written, report

1440.

The Switch 2 is $50 off at Woot for new customers (theverge.com)

2026-07-21 | by Brad Bourque | tags: nintendo switch 2, woot, gift26