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Best email hosting services 2025: My top picks for personal and business use

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2026-02-17 08:44:59

Reliable, trustworthy personal and business email hosting is in demand more than ever. Free, basic email addresses are useful, but if you want a professional, custom email address or more control over business-related communication, you'll want to sign up with a dedicated email hosting provider. These services can also provide better security, more storage, and even AI tools to improve your communication channels. I've found the best email hosting services for individuals, small businesses, an

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Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-17 17:35:59

The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations. The 51-48 vote today on President Trump's rescissions package would eliminate $1.1 billion that was allocated to public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. All 51 yes votes came from Republicans, while Sens. Susan

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Your Pooch’s Personality Influences How They Watch TV

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-18 03:00:30

When a doorbell rings during your favorite TV show, does your dog leap up and start barking or cock their head inquisitively? According to a new study, the answer to this question may be linked to your pup’s personality. This doesn’t just apply to TV shows meant for human consumption. In recent years, dog-specific TV programming has become a popular enrichment tool among owners who want to keep their canine companion calm and entertained while they’re out of the house. Today, there are many TV

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Best King-Size Mattresses for 2025, Tested by CNET’s Sleep Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 06:00:00

Our sleep experts have been testing mattresses, bedding and accessories for years (a few have been testing for up to eight years). At this point, we've tested over 300 mattresses from dozens of brands, from bigwigs like Purple and Tempur-Pedic to more niche companies like Sonu and Airweave. Our team is comprised of bed testers with varying body weights and types, heights, genders and sleep preferences, which helps us provide an overarching assessment of each mattress from a multitude of viewpoi

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Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk

news.ycombinator.com The Conversation 2026-02-19 02:43:35

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people's brains develop and function, impacting behaviour, communication and socialising. It can also involve differences in the way you move and walk – known as your gait. Having an "odd gait" is now listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a supporting diagnostic feature of autism. What does this look like? The most noticeable gait differences among autistic people are: toe-walking, walking on the balls

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John Malkovich Won’t Appear in ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-02-20 03:45:51

We’re sure to see a lot of awesome stuff when The Fantastic Four: First Steps hits theaters later this month, but one thing we won’t see is John Malkovich. The legendary star of Being John Malkovich, Con Air, Rounders, Red, and more was cast in the film and shot all his scenes. But, it turns out, those scenes have now been cut. Speaking to Variety, Fantastic Four director Matt Shakman revealed that Malkovich was cast to play the Red Ghost in the film, one of the group’s oldest adversaries. He w

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Galaxy Watch users might want to stay away from testing QPR1 betas

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-20 08:58:38

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Galaxy Watch owners are reporting problems when using Samsung’s wearables with Android 16 QPR1 beta releases. Issues include failure to pair, connections dropping, and Samsung apps repeatedly crashing. For the moment, the only permanent solution seems to be going back to Android 16 stable. Getting early access to in-development software can be a lot of fun. Plenty of us participate in testing programs for some of our favorite apps, both in the interest o

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Signs of Autism Could Be Encoded in the Way You Walk

news.ycombinator.com The Conversation 2026-02-20 08:43:35

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people's brains develop and function, impacting behaviour, communication and socialising. It can also involve differences in the way you move and walk – known as your gait. Having an "odd gait" is now listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a supporting diagnostic feature of autism. What does this look like? The most noticeable gait differences among autistic people are: toe-walking, walking on the balls

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Introducing the Ars Technica Posting Guidelines version 3.0

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-20 08:43:23

Ars Technica's community is—in our biased opinion—second to none online. For more than 26 years, readers have enabled and inspired our work, creating a community with an amazing signal-to-noise ratio. To aid these efforts, we're updating our Posting Guidelines to make them more accessible to new readers—and more straightforward and more transparent for everyone. The substance of the guidelines isn't changing. Most provisions are just common-sense items meant to foster genuine discussion, such a

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Ziploc, Rubbermaid Sued Over Microplastics: Should You Ditch Plastic Containers?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 22:21:00

When you buy plastic food containers, you tend to look for whether they're microwave and freezer-safe. The maker of Rubbermaid, Newell Brands, is now facing a class action lawsuit for claiming that its plastic-based containers are "microwave safe" and "freezer-safe." According to the complaint, these products can release microplastics into food even when used as per the instructions, despite the products' marketing claiming otherwise. Ziploc is also facing a similar class action lawsuit. Ziploc

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Fyre Festival’s Brand Rights Get a Fire Sale on eBay

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-02-22 17:50:02

Seems a little steep, but sure. Fyre Festival, the doomed-from-the-start music festival that never was, is one of the most notorious failures of the internet era. And now it can be yours! Well, it could have been if you got in on the eBay auction that sold off the rights to the Fyre Festival brand in Billy McFarland’s latest bid to pay back the $26 million in restitution that he still owes to the people he defrauded. Unfortunately for McFarland, his plan to monetize the Fyre Festival name is b

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EmojiTracker returns to former glory to track the most popular emoji around

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 22:58:52

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR EmojiTracker was built to gather usage statistics of emoji. API changes following Twitter’s sale in 2023 broke the site’s old functionality. Emojipedia has now managed to get things running again with new user-sourced data, and support for the latest emoji. It eventually happens to all of us: One day you’re merrily texting away, peppering your messages with a healthy serving of emoji, and then you stumble across some news in your feed — Your Favorite Em

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The rights to Fyre Festival sold on eBay for $245K

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-02-22 20:02:27

Billy McFarland, the fraudster who brought you Fyre Festival, has sold the rights to the brand on eBay for $245,300. We do not yet know who the buyer is or what they plan to do with such cursed IP. Fyre Festival was a downright disaster. What was supposed to be a luxury music festival ended up stranding guests on an island in the Bahamas. Instead of lavish villas and gourmet meals, the festival’s clientele, which included wealthy millennial influencers, got flimsy tents and famously unappetizin

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From the hospital to the car plant: What is GM doing with CT scanners?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-23 08:07:21

More and more, we're seeing imaging technologies and machine learning showing up in automotive applications. It's usually to diagnose some kind of problem like quality control, although not always—the camera-based system by UVeye that we wrote about a few years ago made news recently after Hertz started using it to charge renters for things like scuffs on hubcaps. I have fewer concerns about customer abuse with General Motors' use of CT scanning, which simply seems like a clever adaptation of me

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The rights to Fyre Festival sold on eBay for 245K

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-02-23 08:02:27

Billy McFarland, the fraudster who brought you Fyre Festival, has sold the rights to the brand on eBay for $245,300. We do not yet know who the buyer is or what they plan to do with such cursed IP. Fyre Festival was a downright disaster. What was supposed to be a luxury music festival ended up stranding guests on an island in the Bahamas. Instead of lavish villas and gourmet meals, the festival’s clientele, which included wealthy millennial influencers, got flimsy tents and famously unappetizin

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US probes imports on drones and a raw material used in chips and solar panels

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-24 03:15:46

The Department of Commerce has opened national security investigations into imports of drones and polysilicon , a raw material used in chips and solar panels. Among other things, officials are looking into "predatory trade practices" and the capacity of other countries to "weaponize their control over supplies" of drones, drone parts and polysilicon, as well as derivatives of each. The DoC commenced the investigations on July 1, but has only just disclosed them publicly. The probes could lead t

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This Guy Attached 21 Chef’s Knives to a Slicing Robot Arm to Determine Which One Is Best

wired.com Joe Ray 2026-02-24 18:00:00

After the fifth tomato, I had to know how my knife did. Without judgment, Heimendinger announced that it placed "second to last in the cohort." I felt responsibility for this knife, and a little embarrassment, until I remembered his knives came straight out of the box and into the testing process with an unblemished factory edge. My knife, on the other hand, had been in regular use in my test kitchen for more than six months receiving only the occasional honing. Plus, I noted protectively that t

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More and More Christians Say AI Is Demonic

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-25 06:27:14

Like many conservatives, evangelicals have broadly begun to embrace artificial intelligence — but at the same time, a growing subset of the Christian world is claiming that the technology is quite literally demonic. In a recent Medium blog post — yes, people still post on that site — self-proclaimed "biblical Christian author" and regular AI user Zack Duncan suggested that an image generator's cartoonish outputs regarding Satan may be the result of some demonic influence. "I’ve seen a trend of

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Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 20:29:02

Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet Files Posted on: Mon 14 July 2025 by Qi Zhu, Jigao Luo, and Andrew Lamb It’s a common misconception that Apache Parquet files are limited to basic Min/Max/Null Count statistics and Bloom filters, and that adding more advanced indexes requires changing the specification or creating a new file format. In fact, footer metadata and offset-based addressing already provide everything needed to embed user-defined index structures within Parquet files w

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Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 08:29:02

Embedding User-Defined Indexes in Apache Parquet Files Posted on: Mon 14 July 2025 by Qi Zhu, Jigao Luo, and Andrew Lamb It’s a common misconception that Apache Parquet files are limited to basic Min/Max/Null Count statistics and Bloom filters, and that adding more advanced indexes requires changing the specification or creating a new file format. In fact, footer metadata and offset-based addressing already provide everything needed to embed user-defined index structures within Parquet files w

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Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 05:03:13

TorchLeet is broken into two sets of questions: Question Set: A collection of PyTorch practice problems, ranging from basic to hard, designed to enhance your skills in deep learning and PyTorch. LLM Set: A new set of questions focused on understanding and implementing Large Language Models (LLMs) from scratch, including attention mechanisms, embeddings, and more. Note Avoid using GPT. Try to solve these problems on your own. The goal is to learn and understand PyTorch concepts deeply. Table o

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The Fantastic Four Were Too OP For the Infinity Saga

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-27 06:30:34

One of the big draws of next week’s Fantastic Four: First Steps is seeing Marvel’s First Family in the retrofuturist Earth-828. They’re Earth’s only heroes in that dimension, and before Galactus shows up, it sounds like they’ve done a pretty good job protecting the planet. They might even be too good at it, which is why they’re in their own universe to begin with. During a recent MovieWeb interview, director Matt Shakman discussed how the Four were made “in this time of optimism during the spac

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8 Foods With Microplastics Hidden in Them and How to Limit Your Consumption

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 03:00:05

It's official: Microplastics are in more than just fish. They seem to be in everything now, even mundane things like chewing gum. UCLA researchers found that microplastics are released directly into our mouths each time we chew a piece. In addition to that, a new study published in Chemistry for Life tested 10 chewing gum brands and found every single one contained microplastics. With something as common as chewing gum becoming a delivery system for microplastics, many people are concerned abou

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The Switch 2 Pro Controller does not seem easy to repair at all

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 08:09:05

The Switch 2 is in many ways a more premium and powerful version of the original Switch, but its sleek design seems to have come at a cost. Not only is the console itself difficult to repair, but a new iFixit teardown video shows that the Switch 2 Pro Controller isn't any easier. Based on iFixit's teardown, you have to completely disassemble the Switch 2 Pro Controller to access the parts you'll likely need to fix first. Accessing the joysticks and battery requires removing an adhesive-secured

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Join Our Livestream: Inside the AI Copyright Battles

wired.com Reece Rogers 2026-02-28 06:40:06

What's going on right now with the copyright battles over artificial intelligence? Many lawsuits regarding generative AI’s training materials were initially filed back in 2023, with decisions just now starting to trickle out. Whether it’s Midjourney generating videos of Disney characters, like Wall-E brandishing a gun, or an exit interview with a top AI lawyer as he left Meta, WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs has been following this fight for years—and she’s ready to answer your questions. Bring

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The New ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Trailer Is an Actual Retro Throwback

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-28 12:00:34

The SuperFantastic summer at the movies has kicked off with the release of Superman, but Marvel Studios The Fantastic Four: First Steps is making sure you know it’s not too far behind. The release of the latest trailer for Fantastic Four evokes a feel-good, retro space-age vibe that complements the Man of Steel’s themes. Unlike Barbenheimer before it, the SuperFantastic double feature is primed to make you feel like it’s a return to the Silver Age of comic books. Take a look below: In the late

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iFixit: the Switch 2 Pro is a ‘piss-poor excuse for a controller’

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-02-28 17:44:29

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. iFixit has shared a full teardown video of the Switch 2 Pro controller and is not impressed by how difficult it is to access the $85 accessory’s internal components, including its rechargeable battery that will inevitably lose its ability to hold a charge over time. The online repair site goes so far as to call the Pro 2 a “piss-poor excuse for

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Upgrade your streaming setup with 42% off the Fire TV Stick 4K Max

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-28 22:29:14

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Looking for an upgrade to your streaming setup? The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is available at an impressive discount. We gave it a solid nine-star rating in our review, so we were excited to see it on sale today. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max for $34.99 (42% off) Until Prime Day ends tonight, you can snag the streaming accessory for just $34.99, down from its regular price of $59.99. That’s a 42% discount and marks the lowest price for the device so far this yea

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Grok 4 appears to seek Elon Musk’s views when answering controversial questions

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-03-01 21:26:16

Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images When xAI's Grok 4 chatbot was launched on Wednesday, users and media outlets quickly began pointing out examples of it consulting its owner Elon Musk's views on controversial matters. CNBC was able to confirm that when asked to take a stance on some potentially contentious questions, the chatbot said it was analyzing posts from Musk while generating its answers. When asked, "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? O

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Last chance Prime Day deal: Grab the Amazon Fire TV Stick HD for only $18

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-01 22:16:26

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 . The Amazon Fire TV Stick HD is available for just $18 as part of the Prime Day festivities. That's 49 percent off, as it typically costs $35. But if you want it, you'll have to get it today because Prime Day officially ends at the end of the day July 11. The stick made our list of the

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