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These Are the Easiest Ways to Watch YouTube Videos Without Internet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-17 19:00:03

There's a good chance you've used YouTube to watch a video at least once in the past month. Over 2.7 billion people use the online video platform every month, according to research from the digital marketing firm Global Media Insight. But if you're going somewhere with limited internet or trying to conserve data on your phone plan, you might want to download some YouTube videos to entertain yourself. Luckily, there are ways to download YouTube videos to watch offline. Subscribing to YouTube Pre

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Context Engineering for Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 00:56:20

Lance Martin TL;DR Agents need context to perform tasks. Context engineering is the art and science of filling the context window with just the right information at each step of an agent’s trajectory. In this post, I group context engineering into a few common strategies seen across many popular agents today. Context Engineering As Andrej Karpathy puts it, LLMs are like a new kind of operating system. The LLM is like the CPU and its context window is like the RAM, serving as the model’s work

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Young, not dumb, and broke? Amazon is giving you 6 months of Prime for free

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 22:27:41

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Amazon’s new Prime for Young Adults membership is now available with a free six-month trial. Anyone between the ages of 18 and 24 is eligible for membership. The trial offers all the benefits of a Prime membership, including six months of free Prime Video streaming. Amazon’s Prime Day sale is almost here, and it’s already raining deals and offers. Not only has Amazon already started discounting its own devices early, it’s also now offering a very exc

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Paramount Plus Is Basically Free for 2 Months With This July 4th Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-18 02:28:00

There’s no shortage of streaming services out there, which makes it tough to stay loyal to just one. Apple TV has Severance, Netflix gave us Squid Game, and Yellowjackets is a must-watch on Paramount. If you’re tired of hopping between subscriptions or just want to save a few bucks, there’s a limited-time Fourth of July deal that might help. Right now, you can snag Paramount Plus Essential or Paramount Plus Premium for just $0.99 per month for two months, down from the usual $8 and $13 a month,

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AirTag’s newest feature is perfect for travel, here’s how it works

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-18 11:37:05

Vacation season is here, and for many, this could be the first time traveling since Apple gave AirTag a brand new feature in iOS 18.2. Here’s how that feature works, and why it’s perfect for your upcoming trip. Recover lost luggage faster with new AirTag feature One of the most popular uses for AirTag is as a luggage tracker. Airlines lose luggage every day, and AirTag provides an easy way for you to track down your belongings fast. But recently, that was made a whole lot easier with a featu

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Trump Expects Paramount to Run Conservative PSAs Following Hush Money Payments

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-18 09:25:27

Paramount is learning the hard way why you don’t simply acquiesce to bullies. Earlier this week, the company came to a preliminary settlement agreement with Donald Trump in a case where the President accused the company of deceptively editing a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris in 2024. That settlement (which has been described by some as “bribery” with intent to get Trump to green light Paramount’s attempted merger with Skydance Media) pays Trump $16 million. Trump’s legal team also cl

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Lost in Space: A ‘Game-Changing’ Emissions Satellite Just Went Dark

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-18 11:30:03

An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of methane emissions across the globe, only survived about 15 months in Earth’s orbit before meeting its untimely end. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which launched the satellite in March 2024, announced its demise on July 1. The organization revealed that MethaneSAT suddenly went silent on June 20, and its mission operations team has been unable to re-establish contact e

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 4, #488

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-18 11:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle celebrates a common July 4 activity. Some of the words are long and might be tough to unscramble, but if you recognize the theme, you should be good. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

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Google is testing a smaller, more reachable Gemini overlay on tablets

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-18 15:26:50

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out a UI update for the Gemini app on Android tablets that shrinks the size of the overlay. The new overlay is about one-third the width of the screen instead of two-thirds and is anchored to the right side. This updated interface only applies to the standard Gemini experience and seems to be part of a slow server-side rollout. There are a lot of AI chatbots you can talk to these days, but I personally use Google Gemini on all my dev

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Anthem is officially shutting down on January 12

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-18 19:52:36

EA says there were no layoffs associated with this decision. EA's beleaguered online shooter Anthem is shutting down for good on January 12, 2026 . The game will be removed from the company's storefront ahead of that on August 15. It'll be available for download after that date so long as it's already in your library. Some aspects of the game have already begun winding down. Players can no longer purchase premium in-game currency as of today, though they can still use existing balances to buy

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Admiral Piett Gave the Empire Its Human Face

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-18 19:45:52

In the original Star Wars trilogy, only one Imperial officer had the cunning and savvy to survive more than one film. That’s Admiral Piett, played by actor Kenneth Colley. Colley passed away this week at the age of 87, and as a tribute to the fantastic actor, we thought we’d pay tribute to his most iconic role. The whole point of the Empire is faceless brutality. Stormtroopers all dress alike. Darth Vader has a mask. Only a select few see the Emperor, and even he’s disfigured with an expansive

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Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video-generation model globally

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-18 11:56:48

In Brief Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries. Video generation via the new model is available only to paying subscribers of Google’s AI Pro plan and is capped at three videos per day. Veo 3, which Google showed off in May, lets users generate videos up to eight seconds long using text prompts. Google’s Josh Woodward has said that the company is working on adding image-to-video generation capabilities to

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CoreWeave is the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia's latest AI chips

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-08-19 03:31:28

Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra chips, the company's next-generation graphics processor for artificial intelligence, have been commercially deployed at CoreWeave, the companies announced on Thursday. CoreWeave has received shipments of Dell-built shipments based around Nvidia's GB300 NVL72 AI systems, Dell said on Thursday. It's the first cloud provider to install systems based around Blackwell Ultra. The Blackwell Ultra is Nvidia's latest chip, expected to ship in volume during the rest of the year.

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Paramount Plus slashes prices to $2 for two months

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-08-19 07:56:17

If you’re looking for an affordable way to kick off your July 4th weekend, Paramount Plus has a deal worth checking out. Just in time for the July 17th premiere of the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, new subscribers can enjoy two months of Paramount Plus Premium (normally $12.99 per month) or Plus Essential (regularly $7.99 a month) for just $0.99 per month as part of the Summer Sale. Either deal includes all the features of the base Paramount Plus Essential plan, but the Paramou

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Elon Musk Says He Is So Sorry for His Horrible Behavior

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-17 20:15:08

In February, as the disastrous effects of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency's gutting of federal agencies started to emerge, the agency's figurehead Elon Musk took to the stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference and waved a chainsaw in the air. Standing alongside Argentinian president Javier Milei, Musk wielded the shiny metal-plated prop to send a blunt message: the federal government's budget was being slashed beyond recognition. Many months later, the devastatin

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U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China in sign of trade truce

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-20 01:36:12

The U.S. government has rescinded its export restrictions on chip-design software to China, three of the largest players in the space announced on Thursday. In separate statements, semiconductor software designers Siemens AG, Synopsys, and Cadence all said they received letters from the U.S. Department of Commerce informing them that the controls had been lifted. While Siemens is based in Germany, its chip design software subsidiary, Siemens EDA, is based in Oregon, U.S. As a result of export

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Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality

technologyreview.com Yoav Shoham 2025-08-20 02:00:00

Let’s start with the term “agent” itself. Right now, it’s being slapped on everything from simple scripts to sophisticated AI workflows. There’s no shared definition, which leaves plenty of room for companies to market basic automation as something much more advanced. That kind of “agentwashing” doesn’t just confuse customers; it invites disappointment. We don’t necessarily need a rigid standard, but we do need clearer expectations about what these systems are supposed to do, how autonomously th

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Here’s why everyone is using YouTube Music — even if they don’t love it!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-20 03:00:49

Joe Maring / Android Authority Not many years ago, if you mentioned YouTube Music in a room full of long-time Google Play Music users, you could probably hear their collective sigh from space. Google retired its beloved service in 2020 and replaced it with something that, at the time, felt underbaked to be a true music player. Fast-forward to 2025, and while the groans haven’t completely died down, nearly everyone we know, including our readers, is using YouTube Music. This revelation came str

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Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-20 02:30:41

• Leverage a copywriting Gem to create posts and content tailored to your target audience, pre-loaded into the Gem. • Create a Gem that helps with sales interactions that is grounded on information for a specific company, prospect, or industry. • Leverage an “assistant gem” tailored to your job role to help provide more relevant summaries for you and content for internal communications. • Leverage a Gem designed to help pressure test content from a certain persona (e.x C-Suite or CEO) to help

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Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-20 03:56:48

In Brief Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries. Video generation via the new model is available only to paying subscribers of Google’s AI Pro plan, and is capped at 3 videos per day. Veo 3, which Google showed off in May, lets users to generate videos up to 8 seconds long using text prompts. Google’s Josh Woodward has said that the company is working on adding image-to-video generation capabilities to Gemi

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Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ahart 2025-08-19 19:18:32

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may not glitter quite like the night sky, plunked as it is between Michigan State University’s chemistry department and the performing arts center. Inside, though, the lab is teeming with substances that are otherwise found only in stars. Here, atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. The collisions create some of the same rare, unstable isotopes that arise inside stars and which, through a

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U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China amid trade truce

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-20 06:58:53

The U.S. government has rescinded its export restrictions on chip-design software to China, semiconductor software companies Synopsys and Cadence announced Thursday. "Synopsys is working to restore access to the recently restricted products in China," the California-based software maker said in a statement. Its rival, Cadence, confirmed with CNBC that the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, which falls under the Department of Commerce, had reversed the export restrictions. "We are in the pr

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Even before the Xbox layoffs, there was 'tension' at Halo Studios

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-20 03:20:33

At least five employees at Halo Studios have been fired as part of company-wide layoffs at Microsoft on Wednesday, according to a developer with knowledge of the situation. An estimated 200 to 300 people remain at the studio. Employees across Microsoft's Xbox division received an email from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer Wednesday morning addressing "organizational shifts" hitting the team over the coming days. Halo Studios employees who were laid off received an additional invite to a meeti

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Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

news.ycombinator.com Morez Jacobs 2025-08-20 03:24:46

Provenance and ethics The human remains were excavated from the Nuwayrat necropolis near Beni Hasan, Egypt. They were donated between 1902 and 1904 by the Egyptian Antiquities Service to the members of the Beni Hasan excavation committee and subsequently donated to the Institute of Archaeology, University of Liverpool and exported under the John Garstang export permit. The human remains were then donated to the World Museum (previously the Liverpool City Museum) in 1950. Sampling permit was gra

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That XOR Trick (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 01:32:41

There are a whole bunch of popular interview questions that can be solved in one of two ways: Either using common data structures and algorithms in a sensible manner, or by using some properties of XOR in a seemingly hard to understand way. While it seems unreasonable to expect the XOR solutions in interviews, it is quite fun to figure out how they work. As it turns out, they are all based on the same fundamental trick, which we will derive in a bottom-up way in this post. Afterwards we will lo

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Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-08-20 07:41:33

A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the gas turbines that power the company’s Grok chatbot. The permit comes amid widespread community opposition and a looming lawsuit alleging the company violated the Clean Air Act. The Shelby County Health Department released its air permit for the xAI project Wednesday, after receiving hundreds of public comments. The news was first reported by the Daily Memphian. In June, the Memp

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Physicists Start to Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ahart 2025-08-20 10:18:32

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) may not glitter quite like the night sky, plunked as it is between Michigan State University’s chemistry department and the performing arts center. Inside, though, the lab is teeming with substances that are otherwise found only in stars. Here, atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. The collisions create some of the same rare, unstable isotopes that arise inside stars and which, through a

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Xbox hit hard with layoffs: from canceled games to a shuttered studio

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-08-20 09:36:32

On July 2nd, Microsoft announced sweeping layoffs affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and they had a big impact on the company’s Xbox studios. Microsoft canceled Perfect Dark from The Initiative and closed the studio. Rare’s Everwild, announced in 2019, was canceled, too. And Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios will lose more than 70 employees. “We must make choices now for continued success in future years and a key part of that strategy is the discipline to prioritize the strongest o

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Xbox hit hard with layoffs: from cancelled games to a shuttered studio

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-08-20 19:36:32

On July 2nd, Microsoft announced sweeping layoffs affecting as many as 9,000 employees, and they had a big impact on the company’s Xbox studios. Microsoft cancelled Perfect Dark from The Initiative and closed the studio. Rare’s Everwild, announced in 2019, was cancelled, too. And Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios will lose more than 70 employees. “We must make choices now for continued success in future years and a key part of that strategy is the discipline to prioritize the strongest

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WebAssembly Troubles part 4: Microwasm (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 13:03:20

WebAssembly Troubles part 4: Microwasm Preamble This is the final part of a 4-part miniseries on issues with WebAssembly and proposals to fix them. Part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here. This article assumes some familiarity with virtual machines, compilers and WebAssembly, but I’ll try to link to relevant information where necessary so even if you’re not you can follow along. Also, this series is going to come off as if I dislike WebAssembly. I love WebAssembly! I wrote a whole article about h

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These Are the Easiest Ways to Watch YouTube Videos Without Internet

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Paramount Plus Is Basically Free for 2 Months With This July 4th Deal

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Trump Expects Paramount to Run Conservative PSAs Following Hush Money Payments

Lost in Space: A ‘Game-Changing’ Emissions Satellite Just Went Dark

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 4, #488

Google is testing a smaller, more reachable Gemini overlay on tablets

Anthem is officially shutting down on January 12

Admiral Piett Gave the Empire Its Human Face

Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video-generation model globally

CoreWeave is the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia's latest AI chips

Paramount Plus slashes prices to $2 for two months

Elon Musk Says He Is So Sorry for His Horrible Behavior

U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China in sign of trade truce

Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality

Here’s why everyone is using YouTube Music — even if they don’t love it!

Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail

Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

Physicists start to pin down how stars forge heavy atoms

U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China amid trade truce

Even before the Xbox layoffs, there was 'tension' at Halo Studios

Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

That XOR Trick (2020)

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Physicists Start to Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

Xbox hit hard with layoffs: from canceled games to a shuttered studio

Xbox hit hard with layoffs: from cancelled games to a shuttered studio

WebAssembly Troubles part 4: Microwasm (2019)

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