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Coffee at 30 cents is the latest gimmick in China’s billion-dollar ‘instant commerce’ price war

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Evelyn Cheng 2026-02-20 06:06:54

A Meituan food delivery courier rides an electric scooter in Chongqing, China, on March 29, 2025. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images In China's fiercely competitive market, the latest price war is playing out in the growing "instant commerce" sector, where companies are launching massive subsidies and other incentives to get consumers to spend. The 'instant commerce' sector is backed by massive networks of scooter drivers that quickly transport everything from food and drink to fast f

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GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance

news.ycombinator.com Ashwin Sharma 2026-02-19 23:31:47

GPT/GLP-1 Illustration Hello and happy Sunday! Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. I've just got back from HLTH in Amsterdam, nursing what might be the worst three-day hangover of my adult life. Worth it, though. It's one of the best health tech events in Europe, and I made some genuinely great connections. If you’re ever at a large health conference, here’s a neat little hack I learned: Be brave enough to ask questions during panels. It's terrifying, but su

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James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations

news.ycombinator.com Mark Zastrow 2026-02-20 09:10:54

The James Webb Space Telescope is pictured here before being folded up for launch. Credit: NASA Key Takeaways: NASA's Hubble and James Webb telescopes face operational cuts due to budget limitations. Reduced funding may lead to fewer available telescope modes and less user support. Hubble's budget has remained flat for a decade, decreasing its purchasing power. “It’s fewer people, really,” said Neill Reid. The teams operating the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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A Century of Quantum Mechanics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 23:41:58

Lieber Pauli... Read the translation of the letter sent by Werner Heisenberg to Wolfgang Pauli on 9 July 1925. The original letter is preserved in CERN’s Wolfgang Pauli Archive. (Copyright: Heisenberg Society) Dear Pauli, If you believe that I read your letter laughing mockingly, then you are gravely mistaken; quite the contrary – since Helgoland, my views on mechanics have become more radical with each passing day, and it is my firm conviction that Bohr’s theory of the hydrogen atom, in its pre

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Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by Science

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-20 09:35:32

People love to show that skeptics were wrong about something, especially when national pride hangs in the balance. The South China Morning Post published the following headline on November 3rd: “Scientists find traditional Chinese medicine is based on a complex network of proteins – 3,000 years before modern science.” The article points out that respectable editorials in the scientific literature had repeatedly referred to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as “largely just pseudoscience” and “

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Trump Is Losing His Army of Internet Alpha Males Over the Epstein Files

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-20 08:54:18

“Cover-up.” That’s the word ricocheting through the manosphere, echoing across X feeds and podcast episodes after the Trump administration released the so-called Epstein files, and declared the case closed. The backlash was instant and fierce. These were Donald Trump’s most vocal defenders in the 2024 campaign: tradcons, alpha bros, influencers, and masculine revivalists who painted Trump as a bulwark against the liberal elite and the “woke” takeover of America. They helped deliver young, disaf

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Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision)

news.ycombinator.com Justin Dujardin 2026-02-20 03:37:48

When understood and used properly, the constraint W = tanh(Ŵ) ⊙ σ(M̂) (introduced in NALU by Trask et al. 2018 ) creates a unique parameter topology where optimal weights for discrete operations can be calculated rather than learned . During training, they're able to converge with extreme speed and reliability towards the optimal solution. Most neural networks struggle with basic arithmetic. They approximate, they fail on extrapolation, and they're inconsistent. But what if there was a way to m

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Should You Skip the Iced Coffee This Summer Because of Dehydration?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 04:51:04

You know the drill -- it's important to stay hydrated always, but especially in the summer heat. However, that message was taken to another level when the National Weather Service in Las Vegas advised residents across parts of Nevada, Arizona and California to avoid caffeine during extreme heat. The logic is that caffeine may speed up dehydration, which increases your risk for heat exhaustion or even heat stroke. The NWS advisory soon made headlines. To see if we should actually put down our ice

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The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-02-19 23:00:42

In contrast to other technological advances, the objective for next-generation nuclear reactors seems to be to scale down, not up—an initiative backed by the Department of Energy (DOE). Earlier this month, the DOE announced a conditional agreement made with private firms Westinghouse and Radiant to conduct the first reactor tests at its Demonstration on Microreactor Experiment (DOME) facility, located at Idaho National Laboratory. These experiments, featuring two trailer-sized microreactors, w

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I replaced my AirPods Pro with $130 HUAWEI earbuds, and I didn’t want to go back

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-20 03:00:08

HUAWEI Freebuds 6 The HUAWEI FreeBuds 6 are yet another pair of open-fit wireless earbuds, not unlike the AirPods 4 and Samsung Galaxy Buds 3. But with a unique design, comfortable in-ear fit, great sound quality, and surprisingly decent ANC, the FreeBuds 6 stand above their competition. My go-to pair of wireless earbuds is the AirPods Pro 2. While that may sound sacrilegious as an Android user, Apple’s earbuds just work so well for me. They sound great, have excellent noise canceling, a comfor

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Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-20 16:18:56

Artificial intelligence has infected every corner of academia — and now, some scientists are fighting back with a seriously weird trick. In a new investigation, reporters from Japan's Nikkei Asia found more than a dozen academic papers that contained invisible prompts meant to trick AI review tools into giving them glowing write-ups. Examining the academic database arXiv, where researchers publish studies awaiting peer review, Nikkei found 17 English-language papers from 14 separate institutio

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This new 4K Google TV projector just had its price slashed by hundreds of dollars

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-20 17:26:17

Dangbei If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your home media experience, Amazon Prime Day is one of the best times of the year to do it. Although we’re now in the final hours of the event, not all of the big sales are coming to a close today. For example, Dangbei, known for its home projectors, is keeping the party going by offering some exclusive discounts starting from today and ending on July 16. Surprisingly, Dangbei is even slashing the price of its recently launched MP1 Max. Get the Dangbei

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Dan Bongino Might Quit FBI as ‘Epstein Files’ Scandal Boils Over: Reports

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-02-20 22:10:49

Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, didn’t show up to work on Friday and is thinking about resigning from the agency after clashing with Attorney General Pam Bondi about the so-called Epstein files, according to reports from Axios and CNN. Earlier this year, Bondi promised to release more information about the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell in 2019, but the Attorney General declared this week that the case was closed and there would be no more disclo

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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified

wired.com Dhruv Mehrotra 2026-02-21 17:23:55

The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as “full raw” surveillance footage from a camera positioned nearby Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The release was intended to address conspiracy theories about Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody. But instead of putting those suspicions to rest, it may fuel them further. Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics e

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Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-02-22 03:07:11

When OpenAI was having its ChatGPT moment in 2022, Joe Scheidler, co-founder and CEO of Helios, was tackling a different kind of challenge: Helping build the White House’s newly authorized cybersecurity office and navigating the complexities of public-private coordination on cyber policies. His current co-founder, Joseph Farsakh, was also at the State Department, working on Yemen Houthi peace negotiations. The two overlapped in national security discussions and started trading notes on how larg

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China's 'instant commerce' price war sees $0.30 drinks and billions in subsidies doled out

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Evelyn Cheng 2026-02-22 20:41:08

A Meituan food delivery courier rides an electric scooter in Chongqing, China, on March 29, 2025. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images In China's fiercely competitive market, the latest price war is playing out in the growing "instant commerce" sector, where companies are launching massive subsidies and other incentives to get consumers to spend. The 'instant commerce' sector is backed by massive networks of scooter drivers that quickly transport everything from food and drink to fast f

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'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-23 03:05:30

'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far 57 minutes ago Share Save Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Share Save IXI "People don't want to look like cyborgs," says Niko Eiden They look like an ordinary pair of glasses – but these are tech-packed specs. On a Zoom call, Niko Eiden, chief executive and co-founder of Finnish eyewear firm IXI, holds up the frames with lenses containing liquid crystals, meaning their vision-correcting properties can change on the fly. This one pair could

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Ghost of Yōtei’s gameplay deep dive shows the open world, combat, and chill beats

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2026-02-23 12:30:27

We just got a good, long look at PlayStation’s next major exclusive. As promised, Sony held an event dedicated to Ghost of Yōtei, the PS5-exclusive samurai game from Sucker Punch that launches on October 2nd. The stream was a deep dive exploring everything from combat to the world itself — and it’s looking like an impressive step up from its predecessor. You can watch the full presentation in the video above. The story is inspired in part by the folklore creature known as an onryō, a sort of ve

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T-Mobile follows orders from Trump FCC, ends DEI to get two mergers approved

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-23 17:19:48

T-Mobile is ending DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies in an attempt to obtain the Trump administration's approval for two mergers. "As T-Mobile indicated earlier this year, we recognize that the legal and policy landscape surrounding DEI under federal law has changed and we remain fully committed to ensuring that T-Mobile does not have any policies or practices that enable invidious discrimination, whether in fulfillment of DEI or any other purpose," T-Mobile General Counsel Mark N

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U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications

news.ycombinator.com Kat Lonsdorf 2026-02-23 22:48:48

U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications toggle caption Alexander F. Yuan/AP WASHINGTON — In yet another twist for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S., the State Department says it will resume processing student and visiting scholar visa applications for foreign citizens but plans to review their social media accounts as part of the process. All students applying for a visa will need to set their social media profiles to "public," according to a post Wednes

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This phone has an industry-first switchable dual telephoto camera

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-24 17:30:52

TL;DR HUAWEI has announced the launch of the Pura 80 Series. The Pura 80 Ultra features a switchable dual telephoto camera. The series also fits in a new Smart Controls Button to quickly access various features. Samsung isn’t the only phone maker launching new hardware this week. We’re also getting the latest entries into HUAWEI’s Pura line. And the company has done something rather interesting with its most premium model this year. Today, HUAWEI announced the launch of the Pura 80 Series, w

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Automatically Packaging a Haskell Library as a Swift Binary XCFramework

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 11:01:56

Announcing xcframework or: the happy path for wiring a Haskell dependency to your Swift app I’ve written about Haskell x Swift interoperability before. Calling Haskell from Swift is about marshalling and the foreign function interface. But Creating a macOS app with Haskell and Swift tells the much messier tale of hijacking XCode to vodoo together the Haskell library, its headers, and two handfuls of other magic ingredients into one buildable SwiftUI application. Stop! Don’t click on the last l

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The SEC Is Crashing the Digital Stocks Party

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-25 03:20:28

For years, the promise of blockchain technology has captivated the financial world, hinting at a future where traditional assets are transformed into nimble, digital “tokens.” This vision, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce puts it, is “enchanting, but not magical.” She just sent a clear message to anyone hoping blockchain would free them from financial regulation: not so fast. Commissioner Peirce acknowledged the promise of tokenization, the process

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T-Mobile ends DEI programs in attempt to win deal approvals from the FCC

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-26 00:22:39

T-Mobile has abandoned all of its programs for diversity, equity and inclusion. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, the telecom said that it "is ending its DEI-related policies [...] not just in name, but in substance." T-Mobile conveniently waited to dismantle its DEI efforts until it was awaiting FCC approval for two major deals. The company needs regulatory backing to purchase extensive assets from United States Cellular in a deal valued at $4.4 billion. It's also looking t

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The best smart scales for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 11:00:35

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 . Finding the best smart scale isn't just about tracking your weight anymore. Today’s smart bathroom scales do much more than older analog or digital models — they can give you detailed body composition measurements, track trends over time and sync effortlessly with health apps on your p

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A Flustered Pam Bondi Tries to Explain Why a Minute Was Missing From the Epstein Jail Video

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-03-01 22:50:32

Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked by reporters Tuesday about Jeffrey Epstein, causing President Donald Trump, who was sitting near her at the White House, to become indignant that anyone was still asking about the sex offender who was found dead in a jail cell in 2019. Bondi gave a very confusing response about both her past comments on Epstein and a one-minute gap in the video released by the U.S. Department of Justice. But only after Trump berated the reporter for even asking about Epstein

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How to Spot Fake Beauty Products on Amazon: Tips and Advice

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2026-03-02 17:00:00

You’d expect your pimple patches to heal blemishes, not cause them. But when you're buying beauty products on Amazon, there’s a risk you’re getting more than you bargained for. And you wouldn’t be alone. According to a 2023 study from Michigan State University, nearly seven in 10 consumers were fooled into purchasing counterfeit items online. That same year, Amazon reported blocking more than 700,000 attempts by “bad actors” trying to open new storefronts and seizing more than 7 million counter

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DOJ Releases Video of Jeffrey Epstein’s Jail Cell, but There’s a Minute Missing

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-03-02 22:25:51

The U.S. Department of Justice has released video from the jail in New York where Jeffrey Epstein was held, recorded the day he died in 2019. The release is part of a campaign by the Trump regime to convince skeptical Americans that the child sex offender really did kill himself. But the video is only creating more conspiracy theories because there appears to be about one minute missing. The video released by DOJ, from inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center, begins at 7:30 p.m. on August 9

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Wait, Are We Really Not Supposed to Drink Coffee in the Summer?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-03 09:00:07

As heat waves roll through large parts of the country, staying cool and hydrated is more important than ever. That's why a recent post from the National Weather Service in Las Vegas made headlines when it warned residents across parts of Nevada, Arizona and California to avoid caffeine during extreme heat. The concern? Caffeine may speed up dehydration, which increases your risk for heat exhaustion or even heat stroke. The advisory quickly took off online, with some headlines claiming that coffe

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I tested Huawei's $3,600 tri-foldable phone - now I'm wondering why Samsung hasn't made this yet

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-03-04 08:02:00

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Huawei introduced the world's first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate, in its home country late last year. A global release seemed unlikely, but after breaking preorder records -- even before its price was revealed -- it finally launched beyond China in early 2025. Also: What to expect from Samsung Unpacked July 2025: Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7, Watch 8 Series, more The Huawei Mate XT Ultimate pushes the boundaries of what you can expect from a phone by fitting a 10.2-inc

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Coffee at 30 cents is the latest gimmick in China’s billion-dollar ‘instant commerce’ price war

GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance

James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations

A Century of Quantum Mechanics

Traditional Chinese Medicine Has Not Been Vindicated by Science

Trump Is Losing His Army of Internet Alpha Males Over the Epstein Files

Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision)

Should You Skip the Iced Coffee This Summer Because of Dehydration?

The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

I replaced my AirPods Pro with $130 HUAWEI earbuds, and I didn’t want to go back

Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers

This new 4K Google TV projector just had its price slashed by hundreds of dollars

Dan Bongino Might Quit FBI as ‘Epstein Files’ Scandal Boils Over: Reports

Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified

Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

China's 'instant commerce' price war sees $0.30 drinks and billions in subsidies doled out

'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far

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T-Mobile follows orders from Trump FCC, ends DEI to get two mergers approved

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Wait, Are We Really Not Supposed to Drink Coffee in the Summer?

I tested Huawei's $3,600 tri-foldable phone - now I'm wondering why Samsung hasn't made this yet

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