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You should turn off this default TV setting ASAP - and why even experts recommend it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-01-05 15:30:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET For many people, motion smoothing on TVs is only appropriate for gaming and watching live sports; enthusiasts typically prefer turning off the feature to watch anything else because it can detract from the filmmaker's original intent, making on-screen images seem artificial or hyper-realistic. This is what's called the "soap opera effect." Also: How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why you shouldn't wait to do it) It's a perfectly descriptive metaphor that probably requires no

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Structural-Demographic Theory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 10:04:03

The causes of revolutions and major rebellions are in many ways similar to processes that cause earthquakes (Goldstone 1991: 35). In both revolutions and earthquakes it is useful to distinguish the structural conditions (pressures, which build up slowly) from triggers (sudden releasing events, which immediately precede a social or geological eruption). Specific triggers of political upheavals, such as self-immolation of a fruit vendor, which triggered the Arabic Spring in Tunisia, are very hard

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Data breach at Tea reportedly contains images and DMs from last week

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-05 16:48:23

Last week, social network Tea experienced a data breach that exposed personal information for its users. The dating safety app for women said at the time that "there is no evidence to suggest that current or additional user data was affected." However, 404 Media reports that the problem is bigger than originally stated. The site credits independent security researcher Kasra Rahjerdi , who found that content from the platform as recent as last week has been exposed. Additionally, this source cla

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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Sieff 2026-01-02 00:32:22

MUR-DE-BRETAGNE, France — After the world’s best cyclists charged up the final climb in Stage 7 of the Tour de France, passing a roaring crowd at the finish line, a group of officials in black polo shirts darted toward their bikes. The officials put red bracelets on the carbon frames. Their job was to conduct a little-known check in one of the world’s most scandal-stained sports: The bikes were being inspected for tiny motors. Eight bikes were wheeled to a black tent a few feet from the podium,

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Nuclear Winter Would Be Even Worse Than We Thought

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-05 14:45:24

Despite happening (thankfully) just once in real life, nuclear warfare has long been a staple element of science fiction. Popular depictions of nuclear conflict—from biographic thrillers like Oppenheimer to imagined disasters like The Day After—reflect the understanding that its consequences would be irreversible and catastrophic to modern society. Unsurprisingly, nuclear warfare and its potential repercussions concern scientists as much as fiction writers. In a recent paper published in Enviro

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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales triple as EssilorLuxottica doubles down on wearables

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-05 22:17:40

EssilorLuxottica, Meta’s partner in the smart glasses market and owner of brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley, just reported stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue, driven in part by rising demand for the Ray-Ban Meta. Here’s the breakdown. In its quarterly results, EssilorLuxottica reported a 7.3% revenue increase, beating a Bloomberg-compiled analyst estimate of 5.9%. It is worth mentioning that at current exchange rates, however, revenue rose by just 3.2%, reflecting the impact of a stronger

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iOS 26’s new Messages feature has political fundraisers freaking out

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-01-05 22:18:14

iOS 26 adds a new filtering system to the Messages app that tucks away messages from “Unknown Senders” into a separate tab. Punchbowl News (via Daring Fireball and Political Wire) reports that Republicans in Washington, D.C. are already freaking out about the fundraising implications of this new feature, warning that it “could cost them $25 million in fundraising revenue.” iOS 26 has political fundraisers on edge The memo was sent by the NRSC (National Republican Senatorial Committee) last we

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.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 05:49:50

You just started a new project. You ran cargo init , poetry init and go mod init . Those commands created the necessary files to work, it also added the following lines to your .gitignore: target __pycache__ bin All great. You continue implementing features, and when the time comes, you publish your project to your Git hosting platform of choice. People start to get interested in your project. One even decides that he's going to implement a new feature! Literally free work done for you! Alr

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My First Look at T-Mobile's Unique Starlink T-Satellite Service Made Me Head Far From Home

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 18:18:00

Is T-Mobile's new T-Satellite service worth $10 a month to be able to text from almost anywhere outside cellular coverage areas? The Starlink-based satellite service can be a convenience if you're camping or hiking remote areas, but also a communications lifeline for people who don't have regular cellular access or need emergency aid. To test it out, though, I had to find a cellular dead zone. T-Mobile estimates there are 500,000 square miles in the US with no cell coverage, so I left my home i

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Review: Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best film version so far

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-05 22:10:40

Marvel Studios officially kicked off Phase Six of its cinematic universe with the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and the film is already garnering solid reviews and a strong start at the box office. The cast is terrific across the board, and the production design is, well, pretty darn fantastic, evoking Disney's Tomorrowland (the park, not the film) with its 1960s retro-alt-future aesthetic. Just let your brain relax and don't try to make too much of the nonsensical plot. (Some spo

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MSI expects to top 10 million motherboard sales for the first time as market rebounds

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-01-06 03:18:00

Bottom line: MSI is staging a decisive comeback in the fiercely competitive motherboard and GPU markets, navigating supply chain challenges and shifting industry demands to reclaim its place alongside top rivals. This rebound signals broader shifts in tech manufacturing and consumer appetite amid rapid innovation. DigiTimes reports MSI is poised for a milestone year, with analysts projecting global motherboard shipments will top 10 million units in 2025. The surge marks a sharp recovery for the

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Whistle pet trackers are shutting down next month

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-06 03:28:28

Whistle, a subsidiary of Mars that makes pet trackers, has announced that it's being acquired by Tractive. As part of the acquisition, Whistle trackers will stop working, but Tractive is offering to replace those trackers for free for a limited time. The official shutdown date for Whistle's pet trackers is August 31, 2025. Users will be able to request a replacement tracker until September 30, 2025 by providing their tracker's serial number and then choosing a new Tractive tracker. Tractive wil

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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 00:05:41

A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that in his entire career he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

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The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Mead 2026-01-06 03:34:40

When the late Pope Francis was elected, a dozen years ago, and famously declined the pomp and perquisites typically associated with the office, among his renunciations was the use of the papal summer residence—a seventeenth-century palazzo in Castel Gandolfo, about fifteen miles south of Rome. Generations of Popes had enjoyed the use of the mansion, which overlooks a volcanic lake and is surrounded by spectacular terraced gardens. The palazzo is now a museum where visitors can admire a gallery o

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The Useless UseCallback

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 02:44:26

28.07.2025 — React, JavaScript, useCallback, Performance — 5 min read #1: The Uphill Battle of Memoization #2: The Useless useCallback I thought I'd written enough about memoization by now, but I feel there is one pattern I'm seeing a lot lately that makes me think otherwise. So today, I want to look at useCallback , and to some extent useMemo , in situations where I think they are totally pointless. Why memoize? There's usually only two reasons to create a memoized version of a function wi

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 29, #779

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 02:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Card players, today's NYT Connections puzzle is for you. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze you

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 29, #309

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 02:00:11

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition features two categories with references to specific places. One is a state and one is a city, so you should be able to sort them out without too much difficulty. Read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta

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Bankrupt Futurehome suddenly makes its smart home hub a subscription service

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-06 03:30:53

Smart home device maker Futurehome is forcing its customers’ hands by suddenly requiring a subscription for basic functionality of its products. Launched in 2016, Futurehome’s Smarthub is marketed as a central hub for controlling Internet-connected devices in smart homes. For years, the Norwegian company sold its products, which also include smart thermostats, smart lighting, and smart fire and carbon monoxide alarms, for a one-time fee that included access to its companion app and cloud platfo

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Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-06 03:26:31

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Sony is suing Tencent to attempt to stop the release of Light of Motiram, which Sony describes as a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series of games, as reported by Reuters. Light of Motiram was announced last year with a trailer featuring an aesthetic that’s quite similar to the Horizon franchise — including huge robot animals and even a title font that resembles the Horizon ga

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Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-06 08:19:53

Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests it'll come to other countries, too. Players in the UK who indicate on their account that they're 18 years or older will now "begin seeing notifications encouraging them to verify their age," Microsoft says. The process is optional for now, and players will be able to enjoy playing Xbox games until "early 2026," when ver

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The New PlayStation 5 Fight Stick Is Way Weirder Than It Looks

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-06 08:01:39

Sony’s new controller for PS5 is unlike any of its other twin-stick, two-handed controllers, and not for all the obvious reasons. Sony’s “Project Defiant” fight stick now has a new name, FlexStrike, and a vague release date—2026. But the more intriguing, and more annoying, aspect of the fight stick is how it will connect to your PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 5 Pro. The FlexStrike features all the face buttons and triggers of a regular DualSense controller along with a single Japanese-type fight

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Superhero Movies Have Stopped Obsessing Over Origins

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-06 08:30:37

There’s a repeating theme across 2025’s major superhero movies—Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, Superman, and Fantastic Four: First Steps. All four have interesting, sometimes conflicting relationships with time and how far along their characters are into their superhero tenures, making these movies simultaneous continuations and introductions. Time has always been a key part of superhero movies, and it used to be that their starting points could be whenever a creative team chose

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Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-06 12:50:47

The Trump Organization is seeking to prevent some online businesses from hawking counterfeit merchandise promoting President Donald Trump. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, the company accused unnamed merchants of selling "inferior imitations" of Trump-branded products on several online marketplaces, including Amazon , Walmart and eBay . The Trump Organization company, which is owned by Trump, sells a variety of branded merchandise through its website, including a go

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Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-06 11:58:16

Scientists are racing to find potential ways to slow down global warming, going far as to investigate ways to dim the Sun. The concept, known as solar geoengineering, has proven incredibly controversial in the past, with critics arguing that we simply don't know enough about the risks, including the environmental and societal impacts of tinkering with the climate. Proponents don't necessarily disagree, but they say the situation is already so bad that we need to consider drastic action, even if

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Different Clocks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 12:05:47

Ianto Cannon's clock graphics These clocks are generated as scalable vector graphics using JavaScript. Feel free to use and modify the source code. Each clock displays the current Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): Loading… Binary This clock shows the Unix time: a 32-bit signed integer representing the number of seconds since 1970 Jan 1st. Polygons These polygons show the time in the format yy:M:w:d:h:mm:ss, where M is the month, w is the week in the month, and d is the day of the week. :

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Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 06:36:39

To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.

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Your Whistle pet tracker will stop working next month

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-01-06 12:42:06

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. Tractive, an Austrian company that makes smart location and activity trackers for dogs and cats, is expanding its presence in the US by acquiring a competitor, Whistle, from Mars Petcare. As a result of the acquisition, the Whistle platform is being shut down and its pet tracking devices will stop working on August 31st, 2025. Existing Whistle cu

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Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-01-03 00:25:00

What just happened? President Donald Trump has taken a firm stance on one of the most contentious questions in artificial intelligence: whether companies developing AI should be required to pay for the copyrighted content used to train their systems. Speaking at an AI Summit in Washington, Trump dismissed the idea as unworkable. He argued that requiring AI firms to compensate for every book, article, or piece of media used in training their models would stifle innovation and risk leaving the Uni

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Sony ad reveals plan to bring PlayStation titles to Xbox, Nintendo, and PC

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-01-06 10:03:00

In brief: A recent job posting on PlayStation's official hiring platform has signaled a notable shift in the company's approach to its exclusive video game releases. The listing details a search for a Senior Director of Multiplatform & Account Management, a role designed to oversee PlayStation Studios' software titles as they move beyond PlayStation's consoles and onto competitors' platforms. The job listing, spotted by Windows Central, makes clear that Sony is targeting a wide range of platfor

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Wuchang patch "optimization" may be forcing lower-res upscaling even at native resolution

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-01-06 12:01:00

Facepalm: 505 Games, publisher of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, has managed to pour oil on the fire of controversy surrounding the game by releasing a patch that apparently forces upscaling even when native resolution is selected. The game has been slammed on Steam for its poor optimization and forcing a lower rendering resolution even when scaling is set to 100%. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has a few good critic reviews, but its Steam rating is Mostly Negative, with the majority of complaints directe

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Latest Tech News

You should turn off this default TV setting ASAP - and why even experts recommend it

Structural-Demographic Theory

Data breach at Tea reportedly contains images and DMs from last week

Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

Nuclear Winter Would Be Even Worse Than We Thought

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales triple as EssilorLuxottica doubles down on wearables

iOS 26’s new Messages feature has political fundraisers freaking out

.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean

My First Look at T-Mobile's Unique Starlink T-Satellite Service Made Me Head Far From Home

Review: Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best film version so far

MSI expects to top 10 million motherboard sales for the first time as market rebounds

Whistle pet trackers are shutting down next month

‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens

The Useless UseCallback

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 29, #779

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 29, #309

Bankrupt Futurehome suddenly makes its smart home hub a subscription service

Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit

Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK

The New PlayStation 5 Fight Stick Is Way Weirder Than It Looks

Superhero Movies Have Stopped Obsessing Over Origins

Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

Different Clocks

Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs

Your Whistle pet tracker will stop working next month

Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

Sony ad reveals plan to bring PlayStation titles to Xbox, Nintendo, and PC

Wuchang patch "optimization" may be forcing lower-res upscaling even at native resolution

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