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Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-14 | get Sparrow → | tags: conversation, conversational, floor

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Meta to reportedly lay off 10% of Reality Labs staff (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-14 | by Ivan Mehta | get Virtual Reality → | tags: cuts, labs, meta

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Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What’ll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs (futurism.com)

2026-01-14 | by Joe Wilkins | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: corporations, going, jobs

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Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | get Mathematical Thinking → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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Memories of items and their contexts are encoded by separate groups of human brain cells (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | get Neuralink → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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Biosensors characterize the routes taken by receptors to different active states (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | get Bioprinter → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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Stretchy organic LED devices with an ‘exciplex’ state are highly efficient (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | get LED device → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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AI can turbocharge scientists’ careers — but limit their scope (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | by Thompson | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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Predicting the fate of tropical forests under intensifying heat (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | by Anderson-Teixeira | get Climate model → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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U.S. carbon pollution rose in 2025. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-13 | get Carbon Capture → | tags: activity, activity reversal, actually

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Meta layoffs today: Facebook parent is slashing hundreds of workers from Reality Labs VR division (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-13 | get Reality Labs VR → | tags: bet metaverse, big bet, big tech

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Meta layoffs today: Facebook parent reportedly slashing hundreds of workers from Reality Labs VR division (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-13 | get Virtual Reality → | tags: bet metaverse, big bet, big tech

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Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin (engadget.com)

2026-01-13 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: bosworth, meta, metaverse

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Alibaba-backed PixVerse launches real-time AI video tool, top executive tells CNBC (cnbc.com)

2026-01-13 | by Evelyn Cheng | get PixVerse → | tags: ai video, generation, pixverse

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Your Slackbot just got a huge AI agent upgrade - what it can do now (starting today) (zdnet.com)

2026-01-13 | by Sabrina Ortiz | get Chatbot → | tags: conversations, enterprise, experience

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Superorganism raises $25M to back biodiversity startups (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-13 | by Rebecca Szkutak | get Microbiome → | tags: biodiversity, climate, firm

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Meta confirms Reality Labs layoffs and shifts to invest more in wearables (theverge.com)

2026-01-13 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Virtual Reality Headset → | tags: bloomberg, glasses, meta

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Should the Loch Ness Monster have a scientific name? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-13 | get Scientific Name → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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AlphaFold can help African researchers to do cutting-edge structural biology (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-13 | by Nji | get AlphaFold protein → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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Don’t assume that women’s low retraction rates reflect male ‘boldness’ (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-13 | by Mcadams | get Smartphone → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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No world-changing discoveries without biodiversity (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-13 | by Winkel | get Genome editing → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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Hands-on with Bee, Amazon’s latest AI wearable (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-13 | by Sarah Perez | get Amazon Echo → | tags: audio, conversation, record

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We got our first close look at Google’s smart glasses software, and it hints at big things (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-12 | get Google Glass → | tags: conversation, glasses, google

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Meta plans to lay off hundreds of metaverse employees this week (theverge.com)

2026-01-12 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Virtual Reality Headset → | tags: division, layoffs, meta

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Baseus’ retractable travel adapter is on sale for more than 50 percent off today (theverge.com)

2026-01-12 | by Sheena Vasani | get Travel adapter → | tags: adapter, baseus, cable

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University of Hawaii Cancer Center hit by ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-12 | get Medigap → | tags: cancer, personal, research

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Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get GoWinXP → | tags: gopath, legacy, path

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Galaxy S25 series is doing something Samsung phones almost never do (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-12 | get Galaxy S25 → | tags: galaxy, galaxy series, ice universe

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Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-12 | get Ocean → | tags: best, best experience, browser

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Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End 'Enshittification' (slashdot.org)

2026-01-11 | by Posted | get Open Source → | tags: better, open, reverse