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Slate Auto’s sub-$30,000 EV pickup is due next year—here’s the factory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 18:24:34

Slate Auto provided flights from San Francisco to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and accommodation so Ars could visit the Slate factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. WARSAW, INDIANA—The Blank Slate pickup scratches a particular itch for some, fulfilling the desire for an EV powertrain without all the bells and whistles associated with a modern vehicle. Gone is the infotainment screen, the lane-keeping assistance, and, for those concerned about surveillance, a modem. Instead, it's an unpain

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ExpressVPN switches to multi-tiered pricing plans, letting users tweak features to plan duration

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 22:00:16

ExpressVPN has tripled its subscription options by switching to a tiered pricing structure, effective today. The new system includes three levels of service, the cheapest offering basic VPN service and the others adding extra features. Each one of those levels — Basic, Advanced and Pro — can be purchased for monthly, yearly or two-year durations. In total, you've now got nine different options for subscribing to ExpressVPN. The company also says legacy plans will remain active "for now," and cu

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5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades that have me seriously excited for September 17

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-22 01:35:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has stated that Meta is preparing to sell 150,00-200,000 units of its Hypernova gl

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JBL’s Grip Is the Tallboy of Portable Bluetooth Speakers

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-22 02:00:01

I’ve seen a lot of influences for wireless audio products (single-use pill packaging and cassette tapes, for example), but JBL’s Grip is a first. According to JBL, the Grip, a new smallish Bluetooth speaker announced at IFA 2025 that focuses on portability, is modeled after the proportions of a seltzer can. To be honest, my first thought was a tallboy, but maybe that says more about me than it does JBL. No matter what you think of when you see the Grip, it sounds like a solid Bluetooth speaker

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Microsoft offers U.S. government over $6 billion in savings on cloud services over 3 years

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-22 11:49:21

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an American Technology Council roundtable at the White House in Washington on June 19, 2017. Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year on cloud services used at government agencies. Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House in January, the GSA has sought to aggregate spending through a strategy called OneGov that's me

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India’s Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-22 10:30:00

Lithium has become the default choice for battery-powered systems, but its limitations — from volatile supply chains to short lifespans — are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Offgrid Energy Labs, a deep-tech startup based in India, wants to make lithium less central, especially when it comes to battery storage. The seven-year-old startup, incubated at IIT Kanpur, has developed a proprietary zinc-bromine-based battery system as an alternative to lithium-ion technology. Called ZincGel,

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The best noise-canceling earbuds for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-23 06:00:35

Whether you're commuting, working in a bustling café or just trying to tune out the world, the best noise-canceling earbuds can help you focus on what matters — your music, podcasts or a bit of peace and quiet. With advanced noise reduction and features like active noise cancellation, these compact in-ear buds are designed to block out distractions and deliver immersive sound, even in the most noisy environments. Today’s top models offer everything from seamless Bluetooth connectivity and cus

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An adventure in writing compatible systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 00:38:35

Turso is a rewrite of SQLite from scratch in Rust. We aim to keep full compatibility with SQLite, while adding new and exciting features like CDC, concurrent writes, encryption, among many others. It is currently in alpha, but progressing fast and getting close to a point where it can be used for production workloads. Rewriting existing software systems is a special kind of hard. Aside from the difficulty in writing the software itself, you have to deal with behaviors of the existing system tha

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A Unique, High-Tech (Family) Computer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 18:13:04

There’s a concept that many people have tried, with varying effects: the “educational computer”, a device that a parent can buy for their children to learn the basics of the computer, which everyone will need to know in the future, and can also play games, so the children will actually want to use it. These have ranged from plasticky VTech toys with little more than an electronic organizer, to the Wonder Computer of the 1980’s, the Commodore VIC-20, which was a full computer. This is a prime mar

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Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 01:35:52

zfsbackrest ⚠️ Experimental: Do not use it as your only way for backups. This is something I wrote over a weekend. There's a lot of things that need work here. pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems. Getting Started Installing You need age installed to generate encryption keys. Encryption is NOT optional. $ go install github.com/gargakshit/zfsbackrest/cmd/zfsbackrest@latest Configuring Create /etc/zfsbackrest.toml . debug = true # warning, may log sensitive data [ repos

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UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 21:40:47

The 300MW Thurrock Storage project, developed by Statera Energy, is now energised and delivering electricity flexibly to the network across London and the south east. With a total capacity of 600MWh, Thurrock Storage is capable of powering up to 680,000 homes, and can help to balance supply and demand by soaking up surplus clean electricity and discharging it instantaneously when the grid needs it. Our Tilbury substation once served a coal plant, and with battery connections like this, it’s to

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Look out, Meta Ray-Bans! These AI glasses just raised over $1M in pre-orders in 3 days

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-24 06:45:33

Rokid executive Liang Guan wearing Rokid Glasses. Liang Guan/Rokid (via LinkedIn) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Rokid Glasses are a competitor to Meta Ray-Bans but offer several more advanced features. The company launched a pre-order marketing campaign via Kickstarted and raised over $1 million in pre-orders in the first 3 days. The AI glasses are likely to appeal to tech early adopters who value features over multiple style selections. The po

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Dozens of Beaches Contaminated By Fecal Matter Over Labor Day Holiday

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 06:52:04

Millions of Americans heading to the shore for the holiday weekend are encountering warning signs instead of waves. From New England to California, public health officials have flagged dozens of beaches for high levels of fecal bacteria, urging swimmers to stay out of the water. The advisories, affecting coastal stretches in Massachusetts, New York, California and even Hawaii, cite unsafe concentrations of E. coli and enterococci, bacteria linked to sewage and storm runoff. Exposure can cause

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New Galaxy S26 Edge battery leak keeps piling on the bad news

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 06:31:36

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Chinese regulatory filing suggests that the Galaxy S26 Edge could have a smaller battery than previously rumored. The listing hints at a 4,200mAh battery rather than a 4,400mAh battery. This would still be an improvement over the Galaxy S25 Edge. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge might be the most polarizing Android phone of 2025. The device has a very slim and light design, but this form factor comes at the expense of battery life. We’re expecting a bigger

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Bash Prompts Collection

news.ycombinator.com Giles Orr 2025-10-20 13:38:21

Bash Prompts This web page is a child of the Bash Prompt HOWTO that I'm maintaining for the Linux Documentation Project. The HOWTO explains a lot more than I'm going to here. My interest in Bash Prompts developed when I found "The BashPrompt Themes Project (now long deceased). Some of their prompts show up here, and a lot of what I've done shows the influence of their work. I started these pages because so many people have been mailing me cool prompts that I couldn't see putting them all in t

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Microsoft found a way to let you play YouTube in the background on Android, without Premium

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 18:57:59

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Edge browser for Android that lets you play videos in the background. The feature can be enabled through the Edge flags page. It works on YouTube, so you can play YouTube videos in the background. Edge Canary for Android also offers a built-in ad blocker that works on YouTube. One of the main benefits of subscribing to the $14 YouTube Premium plan is that it allows you to play videos in the background. But you mig

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I’ve tested the best power stations, and these are my favorite ones of 2025

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 19:48:47

First things first: the Anker F3800 Plus is expensive! It has a retail price of $4,799. It’s a worthwhile investment if you can take advantage of everything it offers, though. The Anker F3800 Plus comes with a hefty 3,840Wh battery capacity. It can literally charge your phone hundreds of times. Of course, you’re not getting this to charge your phone. In my experience, I can run my mini fridge full-time, and occasionally use my air fryer, kettle, and microwave oven a few times a day. At full cha

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Latest Apple Store design combines Genius Bar and Pickup in one counter

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-24 18:57:44

A dedicated Pickup counter has been one of the most notable changes in Apple store designs over the last few years, giving a faster service to those customers who have ordered a product for in-store collection. First launched in 2021, the very latest Apple store design has combined this with the Genius Bar in a single counter … Express counters to Pickup Apple’s first iteration of a rapid pickup concept was an Express Counter first launched more than a decade ago. These were stocked with popu

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Best Ring Video Doorbells of 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 17:59:00

Are you happy with Ring doorbells that are largely limited to Amazon Alexa compatibility? Does the Ring camera on the doorbell show a clear image with the right resolution for easy live viewing? Does the doorbell have any problems with latency and alerts? Can it be positioned close enough to your Wi-Fi network? Does the Ring doorbell have two-way audio, motion detection and other key features? Are you willing to pay for a Ring subscription to get features like video storage and object detecti

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Alibaba shares surge as AI boom drives cloud unit sales

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-24 20:30:42

Alibaba posted a better-than-expected bottom line in the June quarter on Friday, fueled by accelerated sales at its cloud computing unit and a continued revival of its e-commerce business, sending shares higher. Still, the Chinese giant's revenues came in under analyst forecasts. U.S.-listed shares of the Chinese giant had gained nearly 13% on Friday after the company announced results. On Monday, Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares surged more than 19% before paring some gains. Here's how Al

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Alibaba shares jump 19% on cloud unit acceleration, report of new AI chip

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-24 20:42:18

Signage at the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. Alibaba 's Hong Kong listed shares surged more than 19% on Monday as the Chinese tech giant's cloud computing unit drove strong quarterly results, while details emerged over its new AI chip development. It's the highest level for the stock since March. Investors have backed the company's improving performance in its key cloud unit and are content with the the tech giant's investment into new a

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You can still buy refurbished Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses for $76 off - how to find deals

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-24 12:40:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Meta Ray-Bans have often been very difficult to find in stock at both retailers and online stores for the past two years -- and they rarely go on sale. But one of the best ways to not only get a 20% discount but also find some of the styles that have been discontinued or are rarely ever in stock is to use the little-known Meta Refurbished AI Glasses online store. I recently ordered a pair of Meta Ray-Bans in the Skylar style with the Shiny Caramel finish with Polar Brown lens

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The smart cooler that stopped me from toting ice again just hit its lowest price yet

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-24 12:56:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is available for $1,349 but currently on sale. This cooler works as a portable mini-fridge, with dual-zone cooling and the capacity to freeze or refrigerate. The Anker Solix EverFrost 2 is bulky and heavy, and it only comes with one battery so you have to purchase the second to reach the full 3.2 day capacity. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a teenager, I dre

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Ask HN: Best foundation model for CLM fine-tuning?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 00:08:40

Hi, I have a largish (2 GB) corpus of curated, high-quality text in some low-resource language, and I want to build a model that would provide an advanced "auto complete" service for writers. I'm thinking of taking a decoder-only model such as Llama, Mistral or Gemma, slice off the embedding layers (which are based on unneeded languages), create new ones (perhaps initialized based on a FastText model trained on the corpus), paired with a tokenizer newly created from my corpus, then train the m

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The Mortal Kombat II movie is postponed to a spring 2026 release

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 13:25:15

We'll have to wait until May to discover the fate of Earthrealm and Johnny Cage. Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to 2021's reboot of the video game adaptation, will be pushed back from its original October 24 release date to May 15, 2026. According to a post on X from the movie's official account, the "tournament demands a new time and place, worthy of its spectacle." The delay goes against the trailer and promotional images that Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema already put out, but the studios ma

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Replacing a cache service with a database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 08:41:15

Replacing a cache service with a database I’ve been thinking about this: will we ever replace caches entirely with databases? In this post I will share some ideas and how we are moving towards it. tl;dr we are still not there, yet. Why do we even use caches? Caches solve one important problem: providing pre-computed data at insanely low latencies, compared to databases. I am talking about typical use cases where we use a cache along with the db (cache aside pattern), where the application alw

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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

news.ycombinator.com John Fraraccio 2025-10-24 11:15:19

Click to enlarge A while ago I treated you to a dissertation entitled “Does The Sun Set On The British Empire?”, and concluded that it doesn’t. The UK’s widely scattered overseas territories, sparse though they are, mean that the sun is still always shining, somewhere in the world, over British territory. The most important territories in maintaining this late-empire sunlight are the Pitcairn Islands, in the Pacific, and the British Indian Ocean Territory, in the Indian Ocean. To illustrate th

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Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack doesn’t just stick to iPhones now

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-24 12:29:43

We all miss Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack and want to see it return. In the meantime, the old magnetic battery accessory has resurfaced in an unlikely place. Apple introduced MagSafe as part of the iPhone 12 lineup, mainstreaming magnetically attached accessories and vastly improving wireless charging performance with precision alignment. MagSafe Battery Pack was easily the best demonstration of both advancements in one product. But when Apple moved the iPhone from its Lightning connector to s

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Stardew Valley is getting yet another surprise update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 15:18:06

We may not have a date for Stardew Valley's next major update, but we have confirmation that it's happening. Eric Barone, the developer behind the hit farming sim, announced that there will be a 1.7 update during the Stardew Valley Symphony of Seasons concert in Seattle, later confirming the news with a post on X. Barone, better known as ConcernedApe, didn't reveal a release date, nor any teasers about content. Considering the numbered update, we're expecting more than just a patch and somethin

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Replacing a Cache Service with a Database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 13:41:15

Replacing a cache service with a database I’ve been thinking about this: will we ever replace caches entirely with databases? In this post I will share some ideas and how we are moving towards it. tl;dr we are still not there, yet. Why do we even use caches? Caches solve one important problem: providing pre-computed data at insanely low latencies, compared to databases. I am talking about typical use cases where we use a cache along with the db (cache aside pattern), where the application alw

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Slate Auto’s sub-$30,000 EV pickup is due next year—here’s the factory

ExpressVPN switches to multi-tiered pricing plans, letting users tweak features to plan duration

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Dozens of Beaches Contaminated By Fecal Matter Over Labor Day Holiday

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Alibaba shares surge as AI boom drives cloud unit sales

Alibaba shares jump 19% on cloud unit acceleration, report of new AI chip

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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Stardew Valley is getting yet another surprise update

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