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The Verge’s 2025 back-to-school shopping guide

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2026-01-07 08:00:00

Back-to-school season is closer than you might realize, especially for college students, many of whom are set to return to campus in a matter of a few short weeks. And while school can be a challenging time on many fronts, regardless of the grade, there are tools that can help you better prepare for life both inside and outside the classroom. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a selection of dorm-friendly recs from the larger Verge staff, as well as a few essentials suitable for high school and

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Itch.io is the latest marketplace to crack down on adult games

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-07 12:12:36

Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has “deindexed” adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages. The move, the company said, was in response to a campaign by Collective Shout (an advocacy group that has previously criticized video games, rap music, and lingerie commercials) targeting both Itch.io and Steam for selling “No Mercy,” a game that depicts rape and incest. In an open letter addressed to executives at PayPal, Mastercar

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AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-07 10:45:41

AI Startups Are Making Their Employees Work Hours That Will Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat Would you work 72 hour weeks? All Work, No Play Say a little prayer for AI workers in Silicon Valley. In the rush to conquer the AI sector, some startups have adopted a career schedule known as "996" — a draconian work regimen that first took hold in mainland China, according to Wired, in which employees work from 9am to 9pm, six days a week, for a total of a soul-crushing 72 hours. That's obvious

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I found cheap accessories that made my AirTags twice as useful (and secure)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-01-07 10:15:13

Elevation Labs accessories ZDNET's key takeaways These are tough, water- and dirt-resistant AirTag holders that will last years. They go a long way to preventing bad guys from removing your AirTags from secured items. They work on everything from suitcases, camera bags, jackets, and even your cat or dog! View now at Amazon I've mentioned more than once my undying love for Apple AirTags. These devices have made my life so much less stressful, and I have them attached to pretty much everything

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Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome

news.ycombinator.com Louise Vennells 2026-01-07 11:44:31

The blood pressure lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers at the University of Exeter conducted the study, published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine, comparing responses between a group of older adults to that of younger adults. Previous research has shown that a high nitrate diet can reduce blood pressure, which can help reduce risk of heart

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Dumb Pipe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 14:25:47

Connect A to B. Send Data. In 2023 it's hard to connect two devices directly. Dumb pipe punches through NATs, using on-the-fly node identifiers. It even keeps your machines connected as network conditions change. What you actually do with that connection is up to you.

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James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Hall of Justice Murals are Filled With Deep-Cut DC History

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2026-01-07 12:00:21

If you saw the new Superman, chances are you caught that brief glimpse of the mural in the Hall of Justice honoring the 300 years of metahuman lore James Gunn’s new DC is founded on. While there’s been speculation about which characters were fleetingly depicted, Gunn has since shared the mural online for fans to pore over themselves and guess accordingly the who’s who of this new DCU. As these are, indeed, some deep-cut characters, we’ve analyzed the data and are at least 75% sure we’ve identif

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Open Channel: What’d You Think ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’?

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-07 16:30:28

Nearly five full years after Marvel Studios first planted its flag and announced it was coming, the Fantastic Four finally made their MCU debut this weekend. Given the last tries at bringing these heroes to the big screen, and how Marvel treated those characters back when it didn’t own them, it seemed there wasn’t really anywhere for the Four to go but up. But things have changed in the past five years, and now there’s more pressure than ever for them to stick the landing, particularly since thi

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Watch This Humanoid Robot Swap Its Own Battery

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-07 11:00:18

Humanoid robots have crossed a new Rubicon in the latest demo of the Walker S2 robot from Ubtech Robotics. In it, the robot approaches a charging tower filled with multiple batteries (and one empty slot). It removes a battery from its back and replaces it with a fresh one from the charging stack before returning to what is some sort of work site. Watch this: Ubtech's S2 Humanoid Robot Can Swap Its Own Battery for 24/7 Operation 03:00 The Walker S2 appears to have dual battery packs, so at leas

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How to Watch England vs. Spain From Anywhere for Free: Stream UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Final Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-07 12:00:05

It all comes down to this, as defending champions England take on 2023 World Cup winners Spain on Sunday in the Women's Euro 2025 Final at St. Jakob-Park. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. The Spaniards have lived up to their pre-tournament billing as the team to beat throughout Euro 2025, having glided through the group phase scoring 1

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This Dinosaur Probably Chirped Like a Bird

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-01-07 15:00:59

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur that might have chirped like a bird, a finding that suggests the evolutionary origins of birdsong may be far more ancient than we previously thought. In a paper published last week in the journal PeerJ, an international team of researchers describes a 163-million-year-old fossil found in northeastern China’s Hebei Province. The fossil dinosaur, which they’ve dubbed Pulaosaurus qinglong, measures just 28 inches (72 centimeters) and is largely complete, givin

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16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 20:12:35

Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). At one point artists started to group together and release their work in collections released monthly, these collection are called artpacks. Rivalry resulted in fierce competition between these artgroups which only boosted activity. ACiD and iCE are example

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Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

news.ycombinator.com Paula Span 2026-01-07 05:45:07

A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause, she said, “I didn’t want to take a chance.” A cardiologist told Ms. Hollander that based on factors like age, sex, cholesterol and blood pressure, she faced a moderate risk of a major cardiac event, like a heart attack, within the next 10 years. Doctors typically counsel such patients about the

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Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 12:38:27

Since the inception of solid-state drives (SSDs), there has been a choice to make—either use SSDs for vastly superior speeds, especially with non-sequential read and writes (“random I/O”), or use legacy spinning rust hard disk drives (HDDs) for cheaper storage that’s a bit slow for sequential I/O and painfully slow for random I/O. The idea of caching frequently used data on SSDs and storing the rest on HDDs is nothing new—solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) embodied this idea in hardware form, wh

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‘Gen V’ Will Bring More ‘Boys’ Stars Into Season 2

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-07 05:15:42

The second season of Gen V draws closer, and Prime Video came to San Diego Comic-Con with a new trailer underlining the stakes for Marie and the gang when they return to Godolkin University. For her, going back to school after they escaped imprisonment is the last thing Marie wants. She’s been fine living as a drifter on the run, but a save from Starlight (Erin Moriarty), who’s also on the run after The Boys’ previous season, comes with a catch: the ex-Seven member wants Marie to investigate an

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After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-06 04:21:30

Hot on the heels of a major ransomware group being taken down through an international law enforcement operation comes a new development that highlights the whack-a-mole nature of such actions: A new group, likely comprised of some of the same members, has already taken its place. The new group calls itself Chaos, in recognition of the .chaos name extension its ransomware stamps on files it has encrypted and the “readme.chaos[.]txt” name given to ransom notes sent to victims. Researchers at Cis

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EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-07 09:02:36

EE says latest outage fixed after 'technical fault' EE says it carried out further work overnight to fix a technical problem which left some customers unable to make or receive calls. In the last 24 hours, hundreds of people who use the mobile provider have told the BBC they have experienced service issues. It comes after thousands were left unable to make or receive calls earlier this week due to a technical issue which impacted both mobile and landline phones. On Saturday, a spokesperson f

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The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You'll Think You Must Be Hallucinating

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-07 05:00:13

Akin to a rapacious maw, the AI boom has swallowed up untold amounts of water, energy, and jobs lost to automation. Now add the rapidly dwindling housing stock in the Bay Area as even more tech workers crowd in, lured by the possibility of enriching themselves in this massive AI gold rush, according to reporting from The San Francisco Standard. Housing costs are already notoriously high in the San Fran area, but the AI boom has ratcheted up numbers to eye-watering figures while startup workers

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I ran with the Apple Watch and Samsung Watch 8 - here's the better AI coach

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-06 18:15:13

Samsung's Running Coach on the left, and Apple's Workout Buddy on the right. Nina Raemont/ZDNET Apple just released its latest Apple Watch software, the public beta for WatchOS 26, and one feature I was eager to try is finally available. Workout Buddy is an AI-powered feature that offers spoken encouragement, stats, and a host of metrics on the Apple Watch, and works in conjunction with Apple-owned earbuds like AirPods or Beats. It delivers sporadic bits of data, tries to motivate you, and ann

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OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

news.ycombinator.com Michael R. Clarkson Et Al. 2026-01-07 11:18:38

OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful# A textbook on functional programming and data structures in OCaml, with an emphasis on semantics and software engineering. This book is the textbook for CS 3110 Data Structures and Functional Programming at Cornell University. A past title of this book was “Functional Programming in OCaml”. Spring 2025 Edition. Videos. There are over 200 YouTube videos embedded in this book. They can be watched independently of reading the book. Start with t

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New ‘Project Hail Mary’ Footage, and Ryan Gosling, Wowed Comic-Con

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-07 12:45:35

A few short weeks ago, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller graced us with an extended first look at their upcoming sci-fi adaptation, Project Hail Mary. The three-minute trailer for a movie not coming out for nine months displayed supreme confidence in the project, and after watching it, you could see why. So to then bring the film to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, along with its iconic star Ryan Gosling, felt almost like too much. We already have this glorious trailer. What more could we see?

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Detroit's Using Robots to Pick Up Garbage, Mow Grass, Clear Snow, and Much More

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-07 04:45:56

Detroit's Using Robots to Pick Up Garbage, Mow Grass, Clear Snow, and Much More Wall-E has some competition. At a city-owned beach in Detroit, a pilotless vehicle can be seen roaming over the sands as it picks up flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shore. The machine is a BeBot litter robot, and it and other mobile bots have become increasingly common signs in Motown, according to Crain's Detroit Business, as they clear beaches of litter and do other important tasks such as removing snow from

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China calls for the creation of a global AI organization

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-07 11:00:05

China wants to work with other countries and has laid out its plans for the global governance of artificial intelligence at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. Li Qiang, the country's premier, warned about "technological monopolies" and said that AI could become "an exclusive game for a few countries and companies." As such, he proposed the creation of a "world AI cooperation organization" during the event. Li didn't specifically mention the United States when he ta

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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2026-01-03 11:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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It Sure Sounds Like ‘Alien Vs. Predator’ May Return In the Future

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-07 11:00:23

So over here we’ve got new Alien movies and a new Alien TV show. And over there we’ve got new Predator movies expanding that universe. Then, in the upcoming Predator movie, a prominent character is made by Weyland-Yutani, a company at the center of the original Alien film, which also plays a large role in the new Alien movies and TV shows. What the heck is going on here? Friday at San Diego Comic-Con offered fans a rare opportunity to hear from two of the people primarily responsible for major

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CookUnity Prepared Meal Delivery Review (2025): Chef-Centric Meals

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2026-01-07 08:36:00

It shouldn't be surprising if a plate of chicken lababdar tastes delicious. The dish is among my favorite North Indian gravies, a slightly edgier cousin of butter chicken that's a bit spicier and tangier but just as creamy. What was surprising was that this particular chicken had arrived in the mail. Specifically, it came in a microwaveable tray from CookUnity meal delivery service that looked a little like a white-label TV dinner—packed up earlier that morning in Seattle, then driven down to m

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Here are the laptops I’d tell any parent to consider for their back-to-school student

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2026-01-07 09:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. We’re in the heart of summer fun, but it’s already time for back-to-school planning, especially if that involves buying a new laptop. The dizzying number of different laptops and configurations can feel overwhelming, especially if you want something that doesn’t cost too much but will still last a long time. My general guidelines are t

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The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2026-01-03 17:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

wired.com Antonio Dini 2026-01-07 10:00:00

The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. The good news, then, is that more than 60 mayors in Italy have decided to take the field for the cars of the future. On July 14, in the hall of the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan, Pierfrancesco Maran, a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Democratic Party, launched the Autonomous Driving: Italy in the Front Row initiative, which has backing from admini

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PSA: New Samsung foldables and Galaxy Watch 8 series still come with a gift card!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-07 06:22:34

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority All of these offers are available from Amazon. As such, all the freebies are Amazon gift cards (or Amazon credits, in the case of the Galaxy Watch 8). The deals are available for all available color versions. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Z Flip 7 FE The main difference now, compared to when the pre-order deals were available, is that you no longer get the storage upgrade for free. Additionally, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 gift card has been reduced

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The Verge’s 2025 back-to-school shopping guide

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James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Hall of Justice Murals are Filled With Deep-Cut DC History

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Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

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‘Gen V’ Will Bring More ‘Boys’ Stars Into Season 2

After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges

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The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

PSA: New Samsung foldables and Galaxy Watch 8 series still come with a gift card!

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