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Behind the ballistics of the 'explosive' squirting cucumber

news.ycombinator.com Society For Experimental Biology 2025-07-17 20:20:58

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium). Credit: Helen Gorges New research into the biomechanics of explosive seed dispersal in squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) reveals how these plants have adapted a suite of unique traits that help propel their high-speed seeds far and wide. Seed dispersal comes in many

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Digital vassals? French Government 'exposes citizens' data to US'

news.ycombinator.com Anne-Laure Dufeal 2025-07-20 11:26:09

France’s deepening reliance on US tech giants is raising alarms about digital sovereignty and exposing public data to foreign jurisdictions. In a French Senate report on economic and digital sovereignty, Senators accused the French State of “political fault”. That was in regard to outsourcing essential data infrastructure to US companies subject to US extraterritorial laws, including Microsoft, despite repeated warnings and alternatives. “France is subject to US extraterritorial law,” the repo

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Open-Source BCI Platform with Mobile SDK for Rapid Neurotech Prototyping

news.ycombinator.com Ildar Rakhmatulin 2025-07-17 03:25:42

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Nunch’ is an elegantly designed calorie and macro tracker

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-07-20 10:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Many people want to do a better job monitoring their diet and eating habits, but don’t exactly know where to start. Nunch is a fantastic new app to make the process a lot more seamless. Top features Nunch‘s top feature is certainly its interface. It’s very clean, and gets straight to the point. On the

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Warframe's The Old Peace Expansion Revealed: A Perilous Trip to Tau Unfolds Soon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 13:00:00

Warframe's last few updates have been a narrative tour de force through time and space, weaving together disparate threads from the far-flung past of the year 1999 and the fairytale void-dimension of Duviri. Core to these expansions is the conflict with the Eldritch threat known only as the Indifference. As it comes closer to piercing the veil of our reality and escaping the void, it's up to the Tenno to navigate lost memories -- rediscovering forgotten allies, a peace that was doomed to fail a

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Sales Tax Holidays: 17 States Are Holding Tax-Free Back-to-School Shopping Events This Summer. Here's When

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 06:00:00

State sales tax holidays usually run for one weekend, though some states offer longer exemptions. Tharon Green/CNET If you haven't already started buying back-to-school essentials, shopping during a sales tax holiday can offer some extra savings. These tax-free shopping events typically center on back-to-school items, offering discounts on clothing, school supplies, laptops and athletic gear. This year, 17 states are participating in a tax-free event, with one starting this weekend, and two m

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The Art of Freelancing Like a Boss, According to the Folks Who Do It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 08:00:17

Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Jamie Brindle has been freelancing for 16 years and is on a mission to "demystify" the freelance world. In 2020, amid a shaky job market and widespread rejection of corporate hustle culture, he started helping beginner freelancers become their own bosses. The expansion of remote work, advances in AI and the growth of influencer platforms have all led to a kind of self-employment boom. As Gen Zers and millennials find new ways to upgrade their skills in a flexible work se

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Electric Cooler vs. Ice Cooler: I Camped With Anker's Solix EverFrost 2 and an RTIC Ice Box to See Which Is Better

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 09:00:00

Keeping drinks and food cold while camping can be a challenge, especially in the summer. Though a portable power station hooked up to a minifridge can help, it's not the most power-efficient option compared with either an electric cooler or a traditional icebox. I set out to test a "regular" icebox-style cooler -- specifically, RTIC's icebox -- against Anker's new Solix EverFrost 2 to see how it would fare in real-world use against the best coolers on the market. To begin testing, I picked up tw

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Sales Tax Holidays: Tax-Free Back-to-School Shopping Events Kick Off This Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 05:58:18

State sales tax holidays usually run for one weekend, though some states offer longer exemptions. Tharon Green/CNET If you haven't already started buying back-to-school essentials, shopping during a sales tax holiday can offer some extra savings. These tax-free shopping events typically center on back-to-school items, offering discounts on clothing, school supplies, laptops and athletic gear. This year, 17 states are participating in a tax-free event, with one starting this weekend, and two m

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The Art of Roland-Garros

news.ycombinator.com Juan Buis 2025-07-18 07:40:17

All of the tournament's iconic posters in one place. All posters are the copyright of their respective artists and the Fédération Française de Tennis. This site is an independent fan gallery and is not affiliated with Roland-Garros or the Fédération Française de Tennis.

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OpenAI Quietly Turns to Google to Stay Online

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-21 22:30:08

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has quietly added Google Cloud as one of its official service providers, meaning Google will now help power the systems that run ChatGPT and other AI products. This development was disclosed on OpenAI’s website in a list of what are called sub-processors, or companies that handle or process user data on OpenAI’s behalf. For everyday users, it may not seem like a big deal. But behind the scenes, it is a major shift. OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, has

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Pre-order deals: Get up to $300 in Samsung credit with your Galaxy Z Fold 7 or Flip 7

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-22 19:56:42

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority These offers are available directly from Samsung’s official website. The deals are available for all color versions available. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 + free 512GB upgrade and $300 in Samsung credits Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 + free 512GB upgrade and $300 in Samsung credits Thin, light, high-powered, and it folds! The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 offers an 8-inch OLED screen, a 200MP camera, the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, and a 4,40

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Anker SOLIX Everfrost 2 58L Electric Cooler hits record-low price, $340 off

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-23 03:15:23

We recently reported on a record-low deal for the Anker SOLIX Everfrost 2 40L Electric Cooler, which is the one I personally use. Some of you may want something bigger, though! The larger Anker SOLIX Everfrost 2 58L Electric Cooler is also on sale, and it’s also at an all-time low price! Buy the Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 58L Electric Cooler for $759.99 ($340 off) This offer is available from Amazon, but it is shipped and sold directly by Anker. There is a significant caveat: this deal is exclusiv

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Apple’s upcoming hardware roadmap, AirPods marketshare, new Vision Pro strap

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-07-23 15:15:35

Benjamin and Chance react to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman report on what Apple is planning to ship over the course of the next twelve months, as well as the details of a near-term refresh for the Vision Pro including a more comfortable strap. Apple launches a new Emoji puzzle in News+, AirPods marketshare is revealed in a new study, and Apple sweeps the Emmy nominations. And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin and Chance talk more about the recent controversies surrounding Liquid Glass. Subscribe at 9to5ma

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The official Tron: Ares trailer riffs on big tech and features a returning Jeff Bridges

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-23 19:12:32

There's finally a full trailer for Tron: Ares, the third installment in the decades-long sci-fi franchise. This comes after a teaser dropped a few months back and over two years after the film was first announced. The new footage is pretty cool, and gets into the meat of this threequel. It's a riff on AI and big tech, as corporate entities look to weaponize the digital creations of The Grid and bring them to the real world. This does not go well, as evidenced by shots of iconic franchise Recogn

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Fighting AI with AI, finance firms prevented $5 million in fraud - but at what cost?

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-07-23 19:06:40

d3sign/Getty Imageds When most people think of AI, the first thing that probably comes to mind isn't superintelligence or the promise of agents to boost productivity, but scams. There've always been fraudsters among us, that small percentage of the population who'll use any means available to swindle others out of their money. The proliferation of advanced and easily accessible generative AI tools in recent years has made such nefarious activity exponentially easier. Also: Meet ChatGPT agent,

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Get a Free Storm Skin, Hawkeye Skin and More in Marvel Rivals Season 3

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-23 18:30:46

Marvel Rivals season 2.5 may have taken our heroes off-world as they battled across Arakko, but season 3 is throwing us into the furthest reaches of space to fight a new threat: Knull and his symbiote army. Stopping one symbiote is tough enough. Fighting off an army of them is going to require a whole new wardrobe's worth of battle gear. Luckily for you, there are many ways to unlock some free skins in the hit hero shooter right now -- including the Milano Repair Logs event that evens the odds

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Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-07-24 15:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Tuesday. The financing comes just three months after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor a

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This Ninja dual-zone air fryer is 36 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-24 19:34:05

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Pick up one of our favorites while it's on sale for $160. Whether you shopped during Prime Day last week or not, a few of the best deals are still around right now in case you missed anything. One of those is on our pick for best dual-zone air fryer: this Ninja Foodi air fryer is on s

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An Engineer’s Diary Reveals the Human Cost of Building OpenAI’s Next Big Thing

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-24 19:00:13

Behind the seemingly magical abilities of OpenAI’s technology lies a story of intense human effort and immense personal sacrifice. In a candid reflection posted on July 15, former top engineer Calvin French-Owen peeled back the curtain on the company’s high stakes culture. He detailed a product launch that was “unquestionably one of the highlights of my career” but also the “hardest I’ve worked in nearly a decade.” French-Owen is a seasoned tech leader who cofounded the successful data company

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DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-07-24 18:00:00

When the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arrived at the Internal Revenue Service earlier this year, leaders of the group reassured workers that the agency’s free tax filing tool, Direct File, would be spared from cuts. But only a few days after meeting with tax software lobbyists, the beloved tool was placed on the chopping block, multiple sources familiar tell WIRED. The plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS which services 25

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Beeper’s all-in-one messenger updated with better encryption and paid perks

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-25 01:25:27

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The all-in-one messaging app, Beeper, is getting new security features that enhance chat encryption. It also adds new paid “Plus” and “Plus Plus” tiers with features such as message scheduling, incognito mode, and multiple accounts for the same apps. However, there’s still no mention of iMessage support, which was abandoned in late 2023 after Apple repeatedly shot down Beeper’s efforts. If you juggle multiple messaging apps and have ever tried to sea

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Many Gen Z use Find My and other apps to share their location with friend groups 24/7

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-07-25 04:11:43

A new report suggests that many people who belong to Gen Z use Find My and other apps to permanently share their location with groups of friends. A study earlier in the year found that 40% of Gen Z adults share their location with three or more people, and a new piece found it was common to location-share with double digit numbers of friends … Gen Z is generally defined as those born between 1997 and 2012, so current ages would be roughly 13 to 28. A CivicScience study back in April found tha

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A Top Engineer Reveals OpenAI’s Culture of Secrets and Chaos

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-25 03:00:07

Calvin French-Owen only worked at OpenAI for a year, but he saw more in twelve months than most engineers do in a lifetime. As a successful founder turned employee, he joined the world’s leading artificial intelligence company in May 2024 and left in June 2025. What he walked into was not a typical corporate tech job. It was a startup strapped to a rocket ship, powered by GPUs, Slack notifications, and a culture of secrecy that makes Apple look like an open book. “The first thing to know about

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In Place of Processed Sugar, Try These 6 Natural Sweeteners

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 01:53:00

When it comes to sugar, it's not about cutting it out of your diet completely or denying yourself the occasional sweet treat. It's about consuming a balanced amount and focusing on the types of sugar you're eating daily. Six teaspoons of sugar are recommended daily for women and kids age two and older; nine teaspoons for men. As for the types of sweeteners, replacing processed sugar with less refined, natural sugar alternatives can be beneficial to your health. To help you figure out which suga

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Samsung boss cleared of fraud by South Korea's top court

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-25 05:57:43

Samsung boss cleared of fraud by South Korea's top court Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong has been cleared by South Korea's top court of fraud charges, concluding a years-long legal battle over his role in a 2015 merger deal. Lee, the grandson of Samsung's founder and the de facto head of the company since 2014, had been accused of using stock and accounting fraud to try to gain control of the firm. In its final verdict, the Supreme Court in Seoul upheld a not guilty verdict, after Lee was acquitted

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OpenAI Engineer Quits, Says Company Is Pure Chaos Inside

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-26 02:04:09

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is setting a breakneck pace with his company, rolling out feature after feature to keep the multibillion-dollar gravy train steaming ahead. And that kind of drum beat, especially paired with ChatGPT's meteoric rise, is bound to cause plenty of chaos behind the scenes. In a blog post, former OpenAI engineer Calvin French-Owen, who helped build the company's new coding agent Codex, said there "wasn't any personal drama in my decision to leave" — but he did recap his experie

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4 Reasons I Switched to a Glass-Bowl Air Fryer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 09:55:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 9.2 / 10 SCORE Ninja Crispi $160 at Amazon $160 at Target $160 at Best Buy Pros Cook, serve, and storage capabilities Easy to clean: almost everything is dishwasher-safe Intuitive operation No concern about PFAS Ability to see cooking in progress Can buy additional glass vessels for maximum food prep Small storage footprint with nesting capabilities

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The best free VPNs of 2025: Secure, safe, and fast VPNs

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-07-26 19:32:00

My top pick for free VPNs available in 2025 is Proton VPN, which, despite its limits, will suit many users who do not want to subscribe. Why we like it: The free version of Proton VPN offers many useful features that are paid for through other services and VPN subscribers. This is important when it comes to free VPN services, as it provides a measure of security and data protection that some shady services do not. After all, if your information is being sold in return for a VPN connection, this

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Razer Freyja Review: A Haptic Gaming Cushion for Better Immersion

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-07-26 19:00:00

I remember the first time I played a first-person shooter. It was Star Wars: Battlefront 2, the 2005 version, on the Playstation 2 in my friend’s basement, when I was a kid. I felt like I was right there. The frigid winds of Hoth ripped across my face, and the chatter of comms was right up against my ear. I felt the heat of blaster bolts zipping through the air, and heard them crackling as they shot past my face. I brought the scope up to my eye, aimed, steadied my breath, and pulled the trigger

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Behind the ballistics of the 'explosive' squirting cucumber

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Pre-order deals: Get up to $300 in Samsung credit with your Galaxy Z Fold 7 or Flip 7

Anker SOLIX Everfrost 2 58L Electric Cooler hits record-low price, $340 off

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