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Google just repurposed the temperature-sensor on its Pro-series Pixel phones. Here’s what it does now (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: google pixel, temperature sensor, pixel pro

32.

Microsoft almost made a Surface phone we actually wanted (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: surface phone, microsoft, surface duo

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What comes after the smartphone? Amazon’s Panos Panay will make his case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-11 | by Techcrunch Events | tags: amazon, panos panay, surface devices

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I Watched My Startup’s Hidden Weaknesses Surface Overnight — Here’s the 4-Part Stress Test Every Founder Should Run Before a Downturn Hits (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-10 | by Ksenia Yudina | tags: unest, fintech, stress test

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Droughts Are Getting So Intense That Ancient Ruins Are Beginning to Surface From Dried Up Rivers (futurism.com)

2026-08-10 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: copernicus sentinel-2, danube river, roman empire

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The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: kuridze, national, solar

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Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | by Michael Banks | tags: plasma, solar, structures

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Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jeffrey Kampman | tags: means, memory, products

39.

New Images of the Sun Show Its Surface In the Finest Detail Yet (slashdot.org)

2026-08-06 | tags: images, national, solar

40.

How a steady drip-drip can erode the hardest stone (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: august, august doi, deformation

41.

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: discover, discover kelvin, helmholtz

42.

Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website — company reels from the effects of the memory shortage as it released 8GB base models for Surface laptops this year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, memory, microsoft

43.

Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Arie Olshtein | tags: passkey, google, cloud authenticator

44.

NASA Backs Wild Plan for a Laser-Powered Drone to Explore Giant Caves Below the Moon’s Surface (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: nasa, lunar cave, drone

45.

Anduril Weighs Baltimore Shipyard Investment to Build Drone Boats (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-04 | tags: anduril, baltimore, sparrows point

46.

One UI 9.5 surfaces again, this time with the Galaxy S27 Ultra (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: one ui 9.5, galaxy s27 ultra, samsung

47.

Errant SpaceX rocket stage set to smash into the moon at 5,400 mph, seven times the speed of sound — NASA and South Korean orbiters prepare to track 3-ton TNT impact (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jowi Morales | tags: spacex, moon impact, lunar orbiter

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Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tomasz Janusz | tags: privacy thing, fingerprinting, google chrome

49.

The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: great lakes, tardigrades, fungi

50.

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: sdl3, sokol_gp, sdl_gpu

51.

Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop is hundreds off at Best Buy (theverge.com)

2026-07-30 | by Cameron Faulkner | tags: surface laptop, microsoft, snapdragon x2 plus

52.

Plasmonic metamaterial time crystal (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Guo | tags: plasmonic metamaterial, photonic time crystal, surface plasmon

53.

Mystery reviewer 'finds' Nvidia RTX Spark prototype laptop and puts it through its paces — Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia N1X chip shows promise, though prototype warts are still quite visible (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: nvidia rtx spark, microsoft surface laptop ultra, n1x chip

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Microsoft laptop with Nvidia RTX Spark leaked and benchmarked before launch (techspot.com)

2026-07-28 | by Daniel Sims | tags: nvidia rtx spark, microsoft surface, redmond washington

55.

The Strongest El Niño Ever (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-26 | by Zeke Hausfather | tags: el niño, sea surface temperature, ensemble models

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Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be Even Harder to Reach Than We Thought (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: europa, icy oceans, moon

57.

Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | by Soumya Sagar | tags: university of tokyo, ethanol, polytetrafluoroethylene

58.

Fortinet becomes Intel 4's first foundry customer, following firewall ASIC deal — CEO Lip-Bu Tan's promised foundry wins begin to surface, but on a mature node (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-22 | by Luke James | tags: fortinet, intel 4, foundry customer

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5 Tech Tools That Cut Your Workday in Half for Summer Travel (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-21 | by Mario Armstrong | tags: sightpro, magnetic privacy screen, macbook

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Windows 11 bloat proves too much for Microsoft's new 8GB Surface Laptop (techspot.com)

2026-07-20 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: windows 11, microsoft surface, surface pro 12