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Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:54:15

A world map for everyone The Equal Earth Wall Map is for schools, organizations, or anyone who needs a map showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Africa appears 14 times larger than Greenland as it actually is. And wherever you live, the map has you covered. Download a choice of three versions centered on these regions: Africa/Europe, the Americas, and East Asia/Australia. Other features include: • It’s free. Download the map and print as many copies as y

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Samsung QN90F vs. Samsung Micro RGB TV: Why Do These Huge TVs Cost $30,000?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 23:00:03

Samsung unveiled its newest gigantic television, the 115-inch Q90F, at an event in New Jersey this week. The $27,000 TV appeared alongside the company's other 115-inch Micro RGB TV, which costs even more: $30,000. But what do these LCD TVs give you that smaller, cheaper models can't? I saw both TVs on display, and this is what I think. The QN90F is the largest model in Samsung's flagship QN90F range, which starts in a 42-inch size. This 4K TV boasts the company's top technologies -- one it shar

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What if every city had a London Overground?

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Furseth 2025-11-01 17:11:37

An underground train network is the pinnacle of public transport—right now, in New York and Chicago, Paris and Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing, people are being whisked through a network of tunnels, deep below the bustling city. In London, which has the oldest rapid transit system in the world, the Tube isn’t just public transportation—it’s famous as the beating heart of the city, assisting up to five million passenger journeys a day. Formally known as the London Underground, the Tube’s logo is soon r

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SpaceX Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money Every Time One of Its Starships Explodes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 16:45:24

Time is ticking for SpaceX's Starship. Even after nearly ten launches, the behemoth spacecraft has yet to successfully visit space and then come safely back to Earth even a single time — but NASA is nonetheless relying on it to ferry astronauts from the Moon's orbit down to the surface just over two years from now. Given Starship's track record so far — nine full-scale test flights have ended in explosions shortly after launch, explosions in space, and crashes into the ocean — it's a steep goa

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Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-04 14:07:40

When Donald Trump recently claimed, during what was supposed to be a press conference about a European Union trade deal, that wind turbines were a "con job" that drive whales "loco," kill birds and even people, he wasn’t just repeating old myths. He was tapping into a global pattern of conspiracy theories around renewable energy—particularly wind farms. (Trump calls them “windmills”—a climate denier trope.) Like 19th century fears that telephones would spread diseases, wind farm conspiracy theo

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Worried about AI's soaring energy needs? Avoiding chatbots won't help - but 3 things could

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-11-04 18:00:00

Overearth/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways AI investment is driving up energy demands and impacting local grids. AI energy use must be considered relative to tech's energy demands overall. Businesses and individuals have several options for managing their AI footprint. AI feels inescapable. It's everywhere: Your smartphone, Google, even your work tools. AI features promise to make life easier and more productive, but what does all this new tech mean for the

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Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 10:22:33

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 16:22:33

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

news.ycombinator.com Tim Cushing 2025-11-04 18:04:56

Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNN from the if-it-can-be-abused,-it-WILL-be-abused dept Earlier this year, an Army helicopter collided with a passenger plane over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. All sixty-seven people aboard both vehicles were killed. While the FAA focused its investigation on the failures that led to this mid-air collision, local investigators in Virginia were somehow far more concerned abou

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Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 04:28:42

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed the bacteria causing all four infections were highly related, suggesting a shared source of their infections. But this bacterium doesn't te

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Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-05 03:42:30

Sustainability-focused fintech Aspiration was flying high a few years ago, attracting famous investors including Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert Downey Jr. Now, its co-founder will plead guilty to helping perpetuate a $248 million fraud scheme, according to U.S. attorneys. Joseph Sanberg, who was arrested in March, has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud, felony counts that could land him in prison for up to 20 years each. “This so-called ‘anti-poverty’ activist has

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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 10:41:48

This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text. Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data (this include also EU citizens under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks). For someone like me, who cares about privacy and runs as much as possible

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Samsung's new $29,999 Micro RGB TV looks ridiculously good

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-05 18:46:29

Last week, Samsung announced the world's first Micro RGB TV and while it sounded fantastic on paper, you can never really get a good sense of what a fresh display looks like until you see it in person. But after going to Samsung's new headquarters in New Jersey, I can attest that it is truly a sight to behold. Now, before we get to the TV itself, it's probably a good idea to dive into what's going on with Samsung's latest panel tech. In many ways, Micro RGB is a step up from current Mini LED sc

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Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-05 18:25:46

Dark energy—the hypothetical force accelerating our universe’s expansion—sometimes raises more questions than it answers. A new study, however, presents surprising evidence that black holes may be an incubator for dark energy—suggesting that the force may be less constant than we believed. In a paper published August 21 in Physical Review Letters, researchers used data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to test a hypothesis that argues black holes convert dead star matter into

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Samsung’s Micro RGB TV isn’t real Micro LED—but it’s so good you may not even care

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 14:00:29

Samsung provided ground transportation from Brooklyn, New York, to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, so Ars could demo its Micro RGB TV. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, New Jersey—Micro LED is still years away, but the next best thing is taking shape right now. A $30,000 price tag and 114.5-inch diagonal size makes the Samsung "Micro RGB" TV that I demoed this week unattainable for most. But the unique RGB backlight and Micro LED-sized diodes it employs represent a gro

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Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 23:53:12

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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Away from Gmail, Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 04:41:48

This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text. Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data (this include also EU citizens under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks). For someone like me, who cares about privacy and runs as much as possible

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Are EV Charging Stations Bad for Your Health?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-06 04:06:03

Charging up your EV today? Don’t stand too close to it. The air around electric vehicle chargers fast charging cars had twice the level of dangerous fine particles than regular urban air, a new study found. Researchers from UCLA measured 50 chargers across the Los Angeles metropolitan area, most of them Tesla Superchargers, and found that they had levels of fine particulate matter between 15 to 20 micrograms per cubic meter. That’s far higher than the average the typical urban background in L

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5 of the best Pixel 10 chargers you should buy instead of Google’s 67W brick

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 16:00:19

Google has a new charger for the Pixel 10 series, offering 67W of peak power spread across two USB-C ports. As an official product, this is the safe bet for guaranteed fast charging, but it’s also more power than you might need, and it’s not exactly the most affordable plug on the market either. Likewise, perhaps you’re after just a single-port plug or maybe want something that can power your laptop and tablet as well as your new Pixel? To help, I’ve dug out some of the best chargers money can b

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Anker wireless chargers are up to 35 percent off ahead of Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:30:37

Anker's 3-in-1 MagSafe charging station is on sale for a record low price of $63 — that works out to savings of 30 percent.The Qi2-certified charger wirelessly charges your compatible iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods on one compact and convenient dock. Qi2 boasts 15W of power, so you can take advantage of fast charging on compatible devices. This means the station can charge an iPhone 16 Pro Max to 20 percent in just 20 minutes and an Apple Watch Series 10 from zero to 100 percent in just over

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Get a Look at a Gorgeous New Animated Sci-Fi Movie With One Hell of a Cast

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-06 23:00:16

Spawn of the Living Dead is shuffling forward with some new cast members. The third season of Percy Jackson has found its Olympian huntress. Plus, get a look at what’s coming on Peacemaker. Spoilers, away! Minecraft 2 During a recent interview with People, Kirsten Dunst jokingly pitched her participation in the upcoming sequel to Minecraft, adding, “maybe I can just make a movie where I don’t lose money?“ Spawn of the Living Dead/Organism 46-B: The Unseen According to Deadline, Casper Van Di

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Belkin’s first 25W Qi2 chargers power up multiple devices

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-06 23:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After announcing certification from the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) a month ago, Belkin is now debuting its first three devices that support the Qi2.2 standard and faster 25W wireless charging speeds. The UltraCharge Pro 3-in-1 is available in sand and c

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Samsung’s “Micro RGB” TV proves the value of RGB backlights for premium displays

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:00:29

Samsung provided ground transportation from Brooklyn, New York, to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, so Ars could demo its Micro RGB TV. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, New Jersey—Micro LED is still years away, but the next best thing is taking shape right now. A $30,000 price tag and 114.5-inch diagonal size makes the Samsung "Micro RGB" TV that I demoed this week unattainable for most. But the unique RGB backlight and Micro LED-sized diodes it employs represent a gro

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OpenAI lawyers question Meta’s role in Elon Musk’s $97B takeover bid

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-07 14:31:38

OpenAI is asking Meta to produce evidence related to any coordinated plans with Elon Musk and xAI to acquire or invest in the ChatGPT-maker. The request was made public in a brief filed Thursday in Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI. Lawyers representing OpenAI said they subpoenaed Meta in June for documents related to its potential involvement in Musk’s unsolicited, $97 billion bid to takeover the startup in February. It’s unclear from the filing whether such documents exists. OpenAI u

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Anduril, Blue Origin to study how to transport cargo from orbit to Earth for the Pentagon

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-07 23:11:37

Blue Origin and Anduril have landed new study contracts with the U.S. Air Force to explore how their technology, including rockets, could move military cargo around the world. The contracts under the Air Force’s Rocket Cargo program are relatively small — Blue Origin’s comes in at $1.37 million and Anduril’s at $1 million. But they could be the first steps in revolutionizing how the Pentagon transports cargo. Study contracts like these are also a strong signal as to which players will later c

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How Much Energy Do Your AI Prompts Consume? Google Just Shared Its Gemini Numbers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 06:49:00

The explosion of AI tools worldwide is increasing exponentially, but the companies that make these tools often don't express their environmental impact in detail. Google has just released a technical paper detailing measurements for energy, emissions and water use of its Gemini AI prompts. The impact of a single prompt is, it says, minuscule. According to its methodology for measuring AI's impact, a single prompt's energy consumption is about the equivalent of watching TV for less than 9 second

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Meta Freezes AI Hiring as Fear Spreads

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:18:30

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is freezing all hiring in its artificial intelligence division. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company characterized the hiring freeze as "basic organizational planning," coinciding with a broader restructuring of its AI division's leadership. It's a notable admission that comes as Zuckerberg has been desperately offering key talent mind-boggling financial offers, reportedly reaching $1 billion — with seriously mixed results — that highlight its frantic attempts

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Google killed this feature so the Pixel 10 could have Qi2 wireless charging

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:34:25

It was exciting when the first rumors started rolling in about the Pixel 10 series adopting Qi2 . This meant the Pixel 10 would become the second Android phone to support the standard. Now that Google’s latest flagship has launched, this wireless charging functionality has been officially confirmed, along with a collection of compatible accessories . But it turns out Qi2 support is a bit of a double-edged sword, as its inclusion directly resulted in the removal of a different feature. Since the

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New AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 firmware now available in public beta

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-08 14:02:39

If you’re running the AirPods firmware public beta, Apple has a new update rolling out now for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4. Here’s what you should know. Apple’s big iOS 26-led software launches are coming very soon, including an update for AirPods users. The majority of new features are exclusive to AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4—models with an H2 chip. But if you own one of those models, Apple just shipped new public beta firmware as a way to preview the new features that are coming. The new A

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Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:44:44

There are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about electric vehicle adoption here in the US. The current administration has made no secret of its hostility toward EVs and, as promised, has ended as many of the existing EV subsidies and vehicle pollution regulations as it could. After more than a year of month-on-month growth, EV sales started to contract, and brands like Genesis and Volvo have seen their customers reject their electric offerings, forcing portfolio rethinks. But wait, it gets wo

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Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)

Samsung QN90F vs. Samsung Micro RGB TV: Why Do These Huge TVs Cost $30,000?

What if every city had a London Overground?

SpaceX Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money Every Time One of Its Starships Explodes

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

Worried about AI's soaring energy needs? Avoiding chatbots won't help - but 3 things could

Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

Samsung's new $29,999 Micro RGB TV looks ridiculously good

Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues

Samsung’s Micro RGB TV isn’t real Micro LED—but it’s so good you may not even care

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

Away from Gmail, Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

Are EV Charging Stations Bad for Your Health?

5 of the best Pixel 10 chargers you should buy instead of Google’s 67W brick

Anker wireless chargers are up to 35 percent off ahead of Labor Day

Get a Look at a Gorgeous New Animated Sci-Fi Movie With One Hell of a Cast

Belkin’s first 25W Qi2 chargers power up multiple devices

Samsung’s “Micro RGB” TV proves the value of RGB backlights for premium displays

OpenAI lawyers question Meta’s role in Elon Musk’s $97B takeover bid

Anduril, Blue Origin to study how to transport cargo from orbit to Earth for the Pentagon

How Much Energy Do Your AI Prompts Consume? Google Just Shared Its Gemini Numbers

Meta Freezes AI Hiring as Fear Spreads

Google killed this feature so the Pixel 10 could have Qi2 wireless charging

New AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 firmware now available in public beta

Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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