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Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-27 21:57:41

We tend to lump all mammoths together as big, hairy elephant-like beasts with enormous tusks. But there were a number of mammoth species, including less furry ones that inhabited temperate regions. And the furry ones include at least three species: the Eurasian steppe mammoth, the Arctic-specializing woolly mammoth, and the late-evolving North America-only Columbian mammoth. Because these species inhabited the Arctic, it has been remarkably easy to obtain DNA from them, providing a genetic pict

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How Science Fiction Became the Key to This Year’s Most Buzzed About Concert

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-28 12:50:52

2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars. Star Trek. Tron. Blade Runner. Akira. The Fifth Element. Interstellar. Superman. Flash Gordon. The Matrix. That sounds like a list of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, but actually, it’s a list of the films mentioned during a discussion about the inspirations behind the Backstreet Boys’ popular new residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. This past July, one of the biggest boy bands of all time celebrated 20 years of their iconic album, Millennium, at

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iPhone 17 vs. iPhone 17 Air, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max: New Rumored Specs Compared

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 11:00:00

While we typically wait until phones are actually released to compare them, Apple's next iPhone models are so highly anticipated that we'll make an exception. We're basing our comparisons on the most credible rumors of what's coming in the iPhone 17 series, including a potential super-thin iPhone 17 Air, to give readers an early sense of how the new series of phones may look. Last year's iPhone 16 series added a handful of upgrades over its predecessors, most notably the new Camera Control key.

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Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 17:00:52

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock band’s lead singers, Don Henley, said in an interview that the song and place “can have a million interpretations.” For US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, what comes to mind is a key part of one of the country’s most central conservation laws. “The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel Californ

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Miss your landline? Verizon's new Family Line lets 5 phones share one number

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-28 21:05:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Verizon's new Family Line gives you a single shared mobile number. You can share the number across as many as five smartphones. Verizon Family Plus with Family Line will cost you an extra $10 a month. My wife and I got rid of our landline years ago, relying solely on our individual mobile phones to make and receive calls. One feature I miss about our home phone was the way we could shar

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Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-28 21:40:34

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is making a big change to how Word for Windows saves documents. The word processing app will soon automatically save new documents to the cloud, instead of Word users having to enable AutoSave and cloud storage options. “We are modernizing the way files are created and stored in

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That boolean should probably be something else

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 04:31:15

Monday, June 30, 2025 One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should be something else. The trick is figuring out what "something else" is. Doing this is worth the effort. It tells you a lot about your system, and it will improve your design (even if you end up usi

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Dyson's Labor Day sale includes a 50-percent discount on the 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 09:00:36

Dyson is holding a Labor Day sale right now, with discounts on a bunch of products. The well-reviewed 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum is available for just $500, which is a discount of 50 percent. That's a seriously great deal and the lowest price we've seen for this product. The Vis Nav made our list of the best robot vacuums, primarily based on the unit's superior suction power. This thing can pull up dirt like a beast. We said it had the strongest suction power of any robovac we've tested and easil

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Creating a qubit fit for a quantum future

technologyreview.com Unknown 2025-10-29 18:00:00

A topological alternative For the team at Nokia Bell Labs, the solution lies in better qubits rather than bigger machines. Specifically, rather than information encoded in individual elementary particles, the team is focused on qubits that hold this same information in the way matter is spatially oriented—what is known as a topological qubit. This alternative approach uses electromagnetic fields to manipulate charges around a supercooled electron liquid, triggering the qubits to switch between

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Two subscription-free smart rings were just banned in the US - here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-29 18:00:21

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands i

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Google’s Expressive Clock redesign is already ticking people off

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 01:51:50

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR The new Google Clock Material 3 Expressive redesign glitches, with jittering digits as the time moves. Some layouts are messy under specific settings, forcing scrolling or text wrapping. Complaints are piling up on Reddit and Google’s support forum. Google’s flashy Expressive makeover for the Clock app was supposed to be a simple style update, but plenty of people are unimpressed, to say the least. Across Reddit and Google support forums, people are

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Crystal Dynamics announces layoffs, but says Tomb Raider will not be impacted

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 04:59:48

Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind the recent Tomb Raider games, announced an unspecified number of layoffs today. In a post on LinkedIn, the game developer kept the size of the cuts vague, only stating that "a number of our talented colleagues" would be impacted. In what's becoming an all-too-familiar refrain, the company cited "evolving business conditions" as the reason for the layoffs. "This decision was not made lightly," the post reads. "It was necessary, however, to ensure the long-term

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People With Ties to Trump Accused of Carrying Out ‘Covert’ Influence Operations in Greenland

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-30 13:10:03

Earlier this year, the Trump administration raised eyebrows and inspired scoffs when it announced it wanted to buy Greenland. Since then, the government has ignored the laughs and continued to pursue its stated objective. Now, a new report from a Danish news outlet alleges that multiple Americans with direct ties to Trump have been engaged in covert “influence operations” aimed at Greenlanders. The purpose of these propaganda efforts is to sow division between the Nordic territory and its parent

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Judge unhappy with FCC’s “vague and uninformative” response to DOGE lawsuit

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:09:55

A judge yesterday chided the Federal Communications Commission for its "vague and uninformative" response to a DOGE-related lawsuit and ordered the commission to produce documents sought under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA). The FCC was sued by journalist Nina Burleigh and Frequency Forward, a group that says it is investigating how Elon Musk's influence in government "is creating unmanageable conflicts of interest within the FCC." Burleigh and Frequency Forward alleged in an April 24 co

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Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-31 01:41:58

Some investors are not happy that Intel agreed to sell the US a 10 percent stake in the company after Donald Trump attacked Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan with a demand to resign. After Intel accepted the deal at a meeting with the president, it alarmed some investors when Trump boasted that his pressure campaign worked, claiming Tan "walked in wanting to keep his job, and he ended up giving us $10 billion for the United States." "It sets a bad precedent if the president can just take 10 percent of a co

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The Trump administration promised a fourth wireless carrier — America got a hot mess instead

theverge.com Karl Bode 2025-10-31 01:20:53

With Dish Network owner EchoStar selling $23 billion in valuable spectrum to AT&T, any pretense that the TV provider will become a serious wireless competitor is dead. But the project was always doomed to fail, and despite plenty of assurances by the Trump administration and other companies involved, the very obvious writing was always on the wall. More than 9,000 T-Mobile employees lost their jobs, the wireless sector stopped seriously competing on price, and T-Mobile increasingly began to beh

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Saudi Arabia wants to be world's third-largest AI provider after the U.S. and China, Humain CEO says

cnbc.com Natasha Turak 2025-10-31 05:44:42

Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, and Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, attend the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 13, 2025. Saudi Arabia is on the road to making data its new oil — if artificial intelligence and data center company Humain gets its way. The company, owned by the Saudi kingdom's massive sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, is looking to build out data center capacity in a country with seemingly unlimited land and abundant energy resources. Faced with

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The best portable power stations for camping in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-10-31 05:08:00

To figure this out, you're going to need to do some calculations and gather some information. First, you need to know what devices you are going to power. List them all, because forgetting that coffee pot or heated blanket could make the difference between the power station lasting all day, or giving up the ghost on you before the day is over. Specifically, you want to know how much power, in watts, each device draws. This information is usually found on a label on the device. For example, a h

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Marvel's 'Thunderbolts' Is Now Streaming. Here's How to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 05:02:06

See at Disney Plus Carries Thunderbolts Disney Plus See at Disney Plus See more details Days before the Lilo & Stitch live-action movie starts streaming on Sept. 3, Marvel's Thunderbolts has dropped on Disney Plus. The action-packed anti-hero flick premiered in theaters on May 2 and stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, Wyatt Russell and Hannah John-Kamen, among others. The movie follows castoffs who team up for a dangerous mission after naviga

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IEEE 3152: A Standard for Transparent Human and Machine Agency Identification

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-31 08:00:09

Introduction The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), deepfakes, and automated decision-making systems has made it increasingly difficult for people to tell whether they are communicating with another human being, an AI, or a blend of both. This poses serious questions about trust, security, and social cohesion, especially in high-impact domains like healthcare, finance, and media. IEEE 3152—officially titled Standard for Transparent Human and Machine Agency Identification — addresses t

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Using information theory to solve Mastermind

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 21:54:11

How you've just played optimal Mastermind Mastermind is a game all about information. The Code Master selects one of $ 6^4 = 1\,296 $ secret codes. Each incorrect guess gives us information by eliminating some of these; the more codes that are ruled out, the more information that guess has provided. Let's quantify this insight! Suppose a guess gets some response that reduces the number of possible keys from some number $n$ to a smaller $n'<n$. The convention in information theory, a branc

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AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-11-01 00:02:04

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn’t rely on rows and columns like a traditional relational database, instead it uses the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format. There are multiple vendors that develop document databases includi

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Das Problem mit German Strings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 21:59:35

German strings are everywhere I look. The impression I’ve gotten from working in the Rust Arrow/Datafusion ecosystem and related file formats for the last couple of months is that StringViews (the implementation of German strings in Arrow) are becoming, if they have not already, the canonical form of representing string columns at execution time. This is generally a good idea. German strings are a fantastic innovation rooted in simplicity that greatly improves most string processing use-cases i

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Eyecam

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:12:31

More info about the project, or request for more media? Contact me at [email protected] . You can download the HD pictures ( mirror ) and the HD video (without captions: link ). Interested in building one ? Eyecam is Open-Source ! What is Eyecam? Eye contact. Human eyes are crucial for communication. Through the look, we can perceive happiness, anger, boredom or fatigue. The eyes move around when someone is curious and took straight to maintain focus. We are familiar with these interact

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Trump Weighs in on MAGA’s Latest Online Crisis: The Cracker Barrel Logo

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-01 04:10:04

The declining restaurant chain Cracker Barrel recently made the unfortunate decision to rebrand its sign, which—if you’ve ever hung out at a strip mall on the side of a freeway—you will probably recognize. The old sign, which we are now being told is “iconic,” previously featured a mascot known as “Uncle Herschel” (based on the store’s founder’s real uncle) and a barrel. The new sign, a study in bland minimalism, nixes both the barrel and Uncle Herschel, replacing them with a vaguely rounded and

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The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don’t Know Why Either)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-01 04:20:38

Remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin’s price soared and companies started promising to add everything to the blockchain? It was an embarrassing era, since blockchain technology has very few practical purposes that can’t be solved by a regular, old-school database. But it sounds like the White House just got the memo and wants to usher in the world of 2017 again. President Donald Trump held a televised “cabinet meeting ” at the White House on Tuesday that clocked in at over 3 hours and 15 minutes.

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Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-01 08:23:48

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Strings in the latest Gmail update hint at some new Google Chat features in testing. Notification summaries in Gmail might work independently of Android 16’s system-wide version, bringing the feature to more devices. Gmail may also offer auto-generated conversation summaries and finally notify you when someone reacts to your Chat messages. Little by little, Gmail is slowly turning into more of a one-stop hub than an inbox. Google has been weaving Chat i

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IBM and AMD to work on quantum-centric supercomputing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 10:53:03

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating to develop scalable, open-source platforms that could redefine the future of computing, leveraging IBM's leadership in developing the world's most performant quantum c

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What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 11:52:36

The BBC recounts by means of interviews the experience of a few ambassadors in these matters. "I was called by the foreign ministry and was told 'We need to see you immediately,'" Mr Casson [former UK ambassador to Egypt] tells the BBC. "The first thing they said was, 'We are not summoning you, but we are going to tell the press we are summoning you. If it had been a summoning, we would have sent a formal diplomatic note summoning you.'" This is the way things normally work in a summoning - a f

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AI super PACs, the hottest investment in tech

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-11-01 12:14:09

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington (last week of summer edition). If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter weekly and everything The Verge has to offer. Ever since the US Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that corporations had the right to free speech and therefore could make political donations, American billion

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Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

How Science Fiction Became the Key to This Year’s Most Buzzed About Concert

iPhone 17 vs. iPhone 17 Air, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max: New Rumored Specs Compared

Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”

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Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake

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Saudi Arabia wants to be world's third-largest AI provider after the U.S. and China, Humain CEO says

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Das Problem mit German Strings

Eyecam

Trump Weighs in on MAGA’s Latest Online Crisis: The Cracker Barrel Logo

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Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (APK teardown)

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AI super PACs, the hottest investment in tech

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