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This Page Is a Quine (2021)

Hi, I'm Pranav And this page is a quine. What is that? Well, a quine is a program that produces its source code as its output. About me I am a research enginer at Conjecture, where you can find me tinkering with LLMs. You can find my resume here I started exploring computers when I was 7, when I got my hands on a QBASIC manual. I have loved writing code and computers ever since. I was a Google Code-in 2018 Grand Prize winner for my contributions to KDE Community, and was invited to visit Go

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consci

Watch Lady Gaga’s Tim Burton-Directed Video for Her ‘Wednesday’ Dance Jam

There was a lot of hype ahead of Lady Gaga’s appearance on Netflix’s Wednesday, but now that all of season two has dropped, it’s clear that her new song, “The Dead Dance,” has an equally important presence in the series. No spoilers if you haven’t binged the new episodes yet, but you can also enjoy the song on its own thanks to the Tim Burton-directed music video. Though Burton has a cinematic filmography stretching back 40 years—all the way to 1985’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, his feature debut—

Taylor Swift's Engagement Post Broke One Instagram Record and Is Still Climbing the Most-Liked List

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram just over a week ago, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. The post broke Instagram's record for reposts (though to be fair, reposting just started on Instagram in August). Still, the post hit 1 million reposts in less than 6 hours and earned 14 million likes in the first hour. By Wednesday this week, it had topped 36 million likes, vault

James Gunn’s Superman sequel is coming in 2027

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. James Gunn has been coy about his plans for a follow-up to this year’s excellent Superman movie, but the writer / director is finally sharing some concrete news about what’s next for the Man of Steel. Gunn announced in an Instagram post today that

Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age-estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age-estimation system will be rolled out to all Roblox users who access the company’s communication tools, like voice and text-based chat. This involves sca

Instagram launches official iPad app, now available on App Store

The day has finally arrived: Instagram for iPad is here. Though it seemed like it might never happen, the popular social media app now offers an official iPadOS version. Here are the details. Instagram for iPad rolling out to all users now Instagram’s iPad app is now rolling out to all users on the App Store. As you might expect, it includes access to your feed, stories, and most of the features you would expect. But Instagram has built its iPad app with a special emphasis on Reels. From th

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources Links Official website Downloads Documentation Mastodon Twitter Support channel (Matrix): #nuclear:matrix.org Discord chat: https://discord.gg/JqPjKxE Suggest and vote on new features here: https://nuclear.featureupvote.com/ Readme translations: What is this? nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from free sources all over the internet. If you know mps-youtube, this is a similar music player but with

After 15 Years, Instagram Finally Releases an iPad App

Fact: the iPad launched 15 years ago in 2010. Steve Jobs famously made himself comfortable in a leather armchair and then proceeded to show everybody how “magical” the iPad was for browsing the web, looking at photos, and—yes—checking Facebook. Also fact: Instagram launched months later that fall, two years before Mark Zuckerberg would cut the app’s founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, a fat check for $1 billion. In the decade and a half since establishing itself as the go-to place to share

James Gunn’s Next DC Movie, ‘Man of Tomorrow,’ Arrives in 2027

What is James Gunn doing to follow up Superman? After months of teasing, the DC Studios president revealed that he’s making Man of Tomorrow, featuring Superman and Lex Luthor, which will be in theaters July 9, 2027. Gunn’s tweet, embedded below, didn’t offer much else besides the title and release date but his stars, David Corenswet and Nicholas Hoult both posted similar images of Superman and Lex so, obviously, they’ll both be returning. You can see those images here and here. This story is d

I Had ChatGPT Order Me a Pizza. This Could Change Everything

Ordering a pizza online is wildly more interesting when AI does it. When OpenAI announced ChatGPT Agent, an AI-powered tool that handles complex tasks from start to finish, I didn't fully understand its capabilities. OpenAI says it can be your personal assistant, but that means little to someone who's never had one. I imagine if I did have a personal assistant, I might ask them to order me a pizza. So, that's what I did. Near CNET's New York office is a relatively new spot named Cello's Pizzer

The Instagram iPad App Is Finally Here

Apple debuted the iconic and now wildly popular iPad in 2010. A few months later, Instagram landed on the App Store to rapid success. But for 15 years, Instagram hasn't bothered to optimize its app layout for the iPad's larger screen. That's finally changing today: There's now a dedicated Instagram iPad app available globally on the App Store. It has been a long time coming. Even before Apple began splitting its mobile operating system from iOS into iOS and iPadOS, countless apps adopted a fre

Instagram is coming to iPad, 15 years later

is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. After years of requests from users, Instagram will finally have a dedicated app for iPad. Beginning Wednesday, September 3rd, users will be able to download the new app built specifically for Apple’s tablet. But it will be slightly different than the mobile app users are accustomed to. Most significantly, the iPad app will open directly to a feed of Reels, the compa

Roblox experiences are getting ESRB age ratings

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Roblox is going to start showing ESRB ratings alongside experiences to help users in the US better understand if an experience is appropriate for a user of a certain age. The new ratings will appear thanks to Roblox’s new partnership with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC),

Instagram is finally launching an iPad app

After years of people constantly nudging Instagram about releasing an iPad app, the social network is finally launching one today. This means users will no longer need to use the iPhone app, which is not optimized for larger screens, or Instagram for web on the iPad. The new app defaults to the Reels screen, allowing you to scroll up and watch short videos on a larger screen. The iPad app has nearly all the features of the phone app when it comes to consumption. Stories appear at the top of th

Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age estimation system will be rolled out to all Roblox users who access the company’s communication tools, like voice and text-based chat. This involves sca

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

You asked for it. A lot. So we built it: our Claude Code integration is now available in public beta, running natively in Zed through our new Agent Client Protocol (ACP). For months, developers have been asking us to bring Claude Code into Zed. We didn’t just want to bolt on a one-off integration; we wanted to build something better. ACP is our new open standard that lets any agent connect to Zed (and other editors, too). Claude Code is a perfect example of what’s possible. Now you can: Run

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Warp brings new diff-tracking tools to the AI coding arms race

The AI coding tool Warp has a plan for making coding agents more comprehensible — and it looks an awful lot like pair programming. Today, the company is releasing Warp Code, a new set of features designed to give users more oversight over command-line-based coding agents, with more extensive difference tracking and a clearer view of what the coding agent is doing. “I feel like with these other command-line tools, you’re kind of just crossing your fingers and hoping that what comes out the othe

Voyager is an interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 finalizes the Builders Stage agenda with top scaling voices

Startups don’t build themselves, and the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — taking place October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West — is where founders, operators, and investors get real about what it actually takes. This stage is all tactics, the nitty-gritty of turning an idea into a business that works. We’ve already announced heavy hitters like Elad Gil, Dick Costolo, and Ryan Petersen — and now the lineup is getting even bigger. New speakers, including Discord’s Jason Citron, a

As an Android user, this is the closest thing to AirTags for my wallet (and better in some ways)

LuLuLook AirCard Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The LuLuLook AirCard Pro is thin, lightweight, and fits seamlessly into wallets. The built-in rechargeable battery lasts for 4 to 5 months between top-ups. Handy slot cut to allow the finder to be attached to luggage. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My grandfather had a saying -- a place for everything, and everything in its place. It turns out that I'm not as tidy as he was, and I have a tendency to… misplac

Translation startup DeepL launches an AI 'agent' in challenge to players like OpenAI

German startup DeepL on Wednesday said it was expanding beyond artificial intelligence-powered translation into general AI agents focused on businesses. The term "agent" refers to an AI tool that can carry out tasks in the background in response to user prompts. DeepL Agent is designed to complete "repetitive, time-intensive tasks across a wide variety of functions" according to the company. It can responds to natural langauge commands from a users. DeepL Agent can be used in various teams fro

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (September 3)

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

The best MagSafe power banks for your iPhone

One of the first guides I ever worked on for Engadget was about power banks. In the years since, I’ve tested more than 50 portable batteries to keep our top picks as up-to-date as possible. Now that the iPhone 17 is on the horizon — and rumored to be the thinnest ever — we wanted to devote some space to MagSafe battery packs in particular. I gathered up a new crop of batteries to test and compared the results with our existing data to pick the best MagSafe-compatible battery out there. As we

Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on Shein

Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on Shein A spokesperson from Shein told BBC News: "The image in question was removed immediately upon discovery." It is thought the product he appeared to be modelling was on sale for just under $10 (£7.50). An image with his likeness, which appeared to show him wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt, appeared on the fast-fashion website until its removal. Fast-fashion giant Shein has launched an investigation after an image of Luigi Mangione - acc

Google Wallet’s exceptional Everything Else feature is rolling out more widely

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google Wallet’s Everything Else feature is now rolling out to regions outside the US. Everything Else lets you scan uncommon IDs or documents and add their digital versions to Google Wallet. Google is also updating the app with a new shortcut specific to Indian users. At I/O 2024, Google announced a handy feature called Everything Else for Google Wallet. With this feature, you can scan or capture a picture of virtually any physical ID or pass and convert

Tencent Open Sourced a 3D World Model

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

You Don't Need iOS 26 to Do Math in Your iPhone's Messages App. Here's How

Apple is set to release iOS 26 this fall -- I'm predicting in less than two weeks -- and it will bring Liquid Glass, call screening and more features to your iPhone. But iOS 18 upgrades your Messages app so that it can solve tricky equations without your Calculator app, and it doesn't need Google to look up conversion rates, either. Prior to iOS 18, if you wanted to figure out how to split a bill with your texting group from afar, you'd have to use your calculator app or Spotlight and then swit

Acer’s new Amadana and CE270 monitors are unusually, strikingly stylish

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Did you know Acer acquired a Japanese design firm called Amadana late last year that makes classy coffee gear, retro calculators, air purifiers, and all manner of minimalist low-fi tech? Neither did I till today — but it goes a long way to explaining wh

Parallel AI agents are a game changer

I’ve been in this industry long enough to watch technologies come and go. I’ve seen the excitement around new frameworks, the promises of revolutionary tools, and the breathless predictions about what would “change everything.” Most of the time, these technologies turned out to be incremental improvements wrapped in marketing hyperbole. But parallel agents? This is different. This is the first time I can say, without any exaggeration, that I’m witnessing technology that will fundamentally trans